Queen Elizabeth II promised last week that a ban on conversion therapy will finally become a reality in the UK. This comes three years after the Government’s initial pledge to ban it – and it seems we will have to wait even longer.Following the Queen’s speech, the Government announced that the ban would only become a reality after a ‘public consultation’.
This is yet another blow to LGBT+ people across this country, and is in my mind a slap in the face of everyone who has undergone, and continues to undergo, such abusive practices.
Conversion therapy is a harmful exercise, where people’s sexual orientation or gender identity is attempted to be ‘cured’, as if our identities are some form of an illness.