likened to medical and psychological torture and all major counselling and psychotherapy bodies in the UK, including the NHS, condemn it on logical, moral and ethical grounds.
The government promised to ban conversion therapy in 2018, when it launched a £4.5m action plan to improve the lives of LGBT people in the UK.
Yesterday (July 2) marked two years to the day that commitment was made, but still, no legislation has been brought forward.
A petition calling for conversion therapy to be made illegal, which has almost 200,00 signatures, says ‘LGBT individuals in the UK are still exposed to this psychological and emotional abuse to this day’.The House of Commons (HoC) tweet said it was ‘investigating’ the petition and asked for people’s.