The UK is moving closer to a ban on LGBTQ conversion therapy after the government launched a “consultation” on how best to make it illegal. In May, Minister for Women and Equalities, Liz Truss, announced her intention to introduce a legislative ban on conversion therapy, a dangerous and discredited practice that seeks to change people’s sexual orientation or gender identity.
On Thursday, she launched a six-week consultation on how to legislate for the ban, describing it as “the next step in that process.” The government’s current proposals to ban conversion therapy in England and Wales include: Ensuring physical conversion therapy acts are sentenced appropriately and introducing a new offence for so-called “talking” conversion therapies