[New post] Theresa May urges Boris Johnson to ban trans conversion therapy
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Theresa May has asked Boris Johnson to make transgender conversion illegal, four years after she promised to do so.
Conversion therapy refers to any form of treatment or psychotherapy which aims to change a person's sexual orientation or to suppress a person's gender identity.
It is based on an assumption that being lesbian, gay, bi or trans is a mental illness that can be 'cured'.
In 2018, Ms May announced plans to ban conversion therapy, adding 'No one should ever have to hide who they are or who they love'.
But plans never came to fruition and conversion therapy remains legal in the UK.
The Government later outlined legislation – the Conversion Therapy Bill – in the Queen's Speech which would ban conversion therapy intended to change someone's sexual orientation in certain scenarios.
But it said that, due to the 'complexity of issues and need for further careful thought', the legislation would not ban transgender conversion therapy.
Campaigners have long since called for conversion therapy to be banned for all (Picture: Getty Images)Boris Johnson's government appeared to do a major U-turn on the issue this year (Picture: AFP)
Writing in the i for the 50th anniversary of the UK's first Pride, Mrs May has now urged her successor to end conversion therapy once and for all.
She wrote: 'Few people, reading of accounts from trans people, would disagree that they still face indignities and prejudice, when they deserve understanding and respect.
'We need to strive for greater understanding on both sides of the debate. Just because an issue is controversial, that doesn't mean we can avoid addressing it.
'To that end, the Government must keep to its commitment to consider the issue of transgender conversion therapy.
'If it is not to be in the upcoming Bill, then the matter must not be allowed to slide.'
The former prime minister has also apologised for her previous views on LGBTQ+ issues (Picture: PA)Protesters march past Downing Street in protest of Boris Johnson's exclusion of including trans people in the ban on conversion therapy (Picture: PA)
'I include myself in that – looking back now, there are issues I would have voted on differently, were I to vote on them today,' she added.
Mrs May's statement comes after a Scottish Conservative MSP criticised the Government for excluding transgender people from the proposed ban, branding the move as 'indefensible'.
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