Draft Conversion Practices Bill - published

https://stoptheconversiontherapyban.uk

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You say “most women and most gay people do not support your movement”. That just is not borne out by the data.

Polling over the last few years shows that a clear majority of Britons want toilets, changing rooms and showers to remain single-sex. In a JL Partners poll of 1,500 UK adults in March 2026, 78% preferred single-sex workplace toilets, 81% preferred single-sex toilets in parks or pubs, and 86% preferred single-sex showers and changing rooms. Only around one in five respondents said trans-identifying people should be allowed to use whichever facilities they prefer, and this was true even among 18- to 24-year-olds and Green voters. https://sex-matters.org/posts/single-sex-services/new-poll-shows-most-people-prefer-single-sex-toilets-and-changing-rooms/]

YouGov’s own research says much the same. In December 2024, fewer than four in ten Britons said trans women should be allowed to use women’s changing rooms or toilets, while 55–58% were opposed. A majority, 55%, said letting trans women use spaces reserved for women, such as toilets or changing rooms, presents a genuine risk of harm to women. 74% said trans women should not compete in women’s sport. https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/51325-where-does-the-british-public-stand-on-transgender-rights-in-2024-25]

Support is also moving away from self-ID. Among women, YouGov found support for people legally changing gender had fallen from 44% in 2022 to 37%, while opposition had risen to 42%. Among 18- to 24-year-olds, support for legal gender change fell seven points, while opposition rose sixteen points. Overall, only about a third of Britons now say people should be able to change both their social and legal gender, while a similar share say neither. https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/51325-where-does-the-british-public-stand-on-transgender-rights-in-2024-25]

A YouGov poll for Sex Matters in December 2024 found that 54% supported clarifying the Equality Act so that sex means biological sex, and among those expressing a view support was more than 2:1 in favour. It also found almost three-quarters thought women’s sport should exclude all males, regardless of claimed identity. https://sex-matters.org/posts/single-sex-services/poll-shows-support-for-sex-meaning-sex-in-equality-act/]

None of this means the public is hostile to trans people. More in Common found that most Britons want a “live and let live” approach, with compassion and common sense as the starting point. People want trans people treated decently and protected from bullying and discrimination. But the same report also found that most of the public, 57%, think trans women should not compete in women-only sport, and that people want inclusion balanced with fairness. https://www.moreincommon.org.uk/our-work/research/britons-and-gender-identity/]

Ipsos found the same international trend in 2025. Only 22% across 23 countries supported trans athletes competing based on gender identity rather than sex, down from 32% in 2021. Opposition was strongest in Great Britain and Hungary, both at 61%. https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2025-06/ipsos-pride-report-2025.pdf]

Gender critical is not a mad fringe view. It is a massive majority across all sections of the country. In the ordinary, practical sense — humans cannot literally change sex, and women’s spaces and sport should not be opened to males on the basis of identity — it is now basically the mainstream UK position, and it always has been

Most people do not hate trans people. Most people are happy to be polite, live and let live, and let adults present however they want. What they do not accept is being told that sex is not real, that women cannot have boundaries, or that single-sex spaces must become mixed-sex because activists demand it.

And I think support is falling partly because people have seen what “trans rights” activism actually asks for in practice: self-ID, males in women’s sport, males in women’s changing rooms, compelled language, no debate, and anyone who says “hang on” being called a bigot. That is not winning people over. It is pushing ordinary women, gay people and plenty of decent middle-of-the-road people towards the gender-critical position.

TRAs have shot their own movement by pushing too far and being dick heads.

https://www.reddit.com/r/transgenderUK/comments/1uf52tc/conversion_practices_draft_bill/

Bill has not gone down well on the other side at all...

Zoonosis, the problem is that desistance/detransition is very easy to undercount.

In the German insurance study of nearly 8,000 young people with an F64 gender identity diagnosis, only 36.4% still had the diagnosis five years later. Persistence was under 50% in every age group, and only 27.3% in 15 to 19-year-old females. So the idea that adolescent gender distress is normally fixed for life is not supported by that data. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11539877/]

Older follow-up studies of pre-pubertal children also found high desistance. One large follow-up of boys referred for gender identity disorder found only 12.2% persisted, while 87.8% desisted. Across earlier studies, persistence averaged about 17.4%, meaning roughly four out of five did not continue with gender dysphoria into adolescence/adulthood. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8039393/]

And the reported detransition rates are almost certainly undercounts, because people vanish from the system. Reuters noted that in one Dutch clinic study, 36% of patients did not return after several years and were simply lost to follow-up. In a UK adolescent referral review, 8.3% no longer identified as gender-diverse, but the authors said that may be an underestimate because another 5.4% moved away or did not follow up. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-transyouth-outcomes/]

There are obvious reasons people do not report it. They may feel embarrassed, ashamed, stupid, or trapped by what they have already said publicly. They may have changed name, pronouns, friendship groups, school identity, online identity, community, politics, clothes, hair, documents, or even body. Walking that back is not neutral. It is socially costly.

There is also pressure from within queer/trans communities. Reuters reported detransitioners being told to “shut up” and even receiving death threats. That will obviously discourage people from saying: “Actually, this was wrong for me.” https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-transyouth-outcomes/]

A survey of detransitioners found only 13% got help from LGBT organisations during detransition, compared with 51% who had support while transitioning. Over half said they did not feel supported during detransition. Their common reasons included realising the dysphoria was about other issues, health concerns, and transition not relieving the distress. https://segm.org/first_large_study_of_detransitioners]

A JAMA Network Open qualitative study also found people discontinuing or reversing treatment often disengaged from care, avoided clinicians because of shame or anticipated stigma, and described lack of follow-up from clinics as a consistent theme. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9315415/]

So no, I don’t think we can honestly say detransition is vanishingly rare. We can say the true rate is uncertain, and probably under-reported because of poor follow-up, bad definitions, social shame, community pressure, and the fact that many people who stop identifying as trans no longer appear in “trans” datasets at all.

That is why I think the sane position is exploratory, whole-person therapy. Not “you are definitely trans”, and not “you are definitely not trans”, but proper therapy that looks at autism, trauma, sexuality, puberty, family dynamics, anxiety, depression, social influence, body image and everything else before anyone gets pushed down a path they may later struggle to leave. Somethign this bill - prevents - do you see?