UK's LGBT+ business champion quits over transgender conversion therapy row
LGBT+ rights.Mr Anderson said trust and belief in the government's commitment to the LGBT+ community had been damaged after a series of U-turns on plans to introduce legislation to ban conversion therapy.Also called cure therapy or reparative therapy, conversion therapy refers to any form of treatment or psychotherapy that aims to change a person's sexual orientation or suppress a person's gender identity.'Conversion therapy is abhorrent'In a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson shared on Twitter, Mr Anderson said it had been the honour of his life to serve as the UK's first LGBT+ business champion, but felt he had "no choice" but to resign."As a young gay man I lived through fear and oppression under the backdrop of Section 28," he wrote.
What is conversion therapy and what has the government's position on banning it been? 'Don't say gay' bill signed: Teachers forbidden to give sexual orientation lessons in Florida Marvel's first Muslim superhero Kamala Khan celebrated as new series Ms Marvel is teased "I could never have dreamt then that a government - any government - would appoint an LGBT+ champion later in my lifetime."However the recent leaking of a plan to drop the government's flagship legislation protecting LGBT+ people from conversion therapy was devastating.
