UK Consultation on Conversion Therapy - Guidance for your response

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www.transgendertrend.com/guide-government-conversion-therapy-consultation/

Excellent guidance here from Transgender Trend to assist in directly responding to the UK Government Conversion Therapy Consultation.
You can cut and paste most of it and/or add you own comments on the link.

sex-matters.org/take-action/conversion-therapy-consultation/

cheers, OP.

Sex mattesr you can either give a full response or a quick one

V useful.

When is the closing date please?

@gailforce1

When is the closing date please?

10th December 11.45pm

Thanks for the links. I'm going to complete this today.

Thank you!

Thanks, this is one of my jobs for today so that's made my life a bit easier not having to go and look for these!

Conversion Therapy Bill - Act Now!

Consultation closes on 10 December!

RESOURCES

1. Send an email to your MP – Press pause on conversion therapy law
Sex Matters

The Government is trying to rush through a ban on “conversion therapy”. But the proposed legislation risks criminalising parents, teachers, therapists, social workers and others, if they don’t affirm a child’s gender self identity.

It only takes a minute to send this message to your MP: tell the government to #presspause.

sex-matters.org/take-action/write-to-your-mp-press-pause-on-legislation-on-conversion-therapy/

2. Letter to MPs re proposed conversion therapy ban
GCritical

gcritical.org/2021/09/20/letter-to-mps-re-proposed-conversion-therapy-ban/

3. Consultation on Conversion Therapy Bill
Women’s Rights Network (WRN)

"If you do nothing else, respond to Q2 of the consultation only, specifying that you disagree with the draft Bill – see 4 in this document"

www.canva.com/design/DAEwoc7pt0M/view

4. Guide to responding to the government Conversion Therapy consultation
Transgender Trend

www.transgendertrend.com/guide-government-conversion-therapy-consultation/

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FURTHER READING - IF YOU HAVE TIME - OTHERWISE, SEE ABOVE

5. GEO research finds no evidence for banning transgender “conversion therapy”
Sex Matters
3 Nov 2021

"The UK government is proposing making it an offence for therapists to question the gender self-identity of children or vulnerable people. They asked a research team from Coventry University to study the evidence on “conversion therapy”. This is our rapid review of that evidence."

sex-matters.org/posts/updates/geo-research/

6. Conversion therapy: calling for legislation without evidence
Sex Matters
22 Nov 2021

sex-matters.org/posts/sex/legislating-with-out-evidence/

7. Conversion therapy: the path to good law
Legal Feminist - Naomi Cunningham

four things I say we need:

• evidence of harm
• a convincing case that the harm is amenable to legislation
• clear proposals
• open public debate

legalfeminist.org.uk/2021/11/17/conversion-therapy-the-path-to-good-law/

8. Conversion therapy ban – a legal opinion
Transgender Trend

www.transgendertrend.com/conversion-therapy-legal-opinion/

9. Prevalence of conversion therapy by therapists in the UK
Transgender Trend

www.transgendertrend.com/conversion-therapy-therapists-uk/

10. Government proposals for banning conversion therapy
Thoughtful Therapists

This is a summary of the key points from the government proposals to bring in a legal ban on conversion therapy. The material is taken from the consultation document, with relevant page numbers indicated, plus tables presenting summaries of more extensive material.

thoughtfultherapists.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/PJ-Summary-of-HMG-CT-Proposals-1121-2-1.pdf

11. Scoping Survey For Government Equalities Office Consultation On Conversion Therapy
Thoughtful Therapists

thoughtfultherapists.org/scoping-survey-pdf/

12. A proposed bill on conversion therapy could do more harm than good
The Economist
4 Dec 2021

By conflating sexual orientation and gender identity, the government risks children’s health

<a class="break-all" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211204060007/www.economist.com/britain/2021/12/04/a-proposed-bill-on-conversion-therapy-could-do-more-harm-than-good" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">web.archive.org/web/20211204060007/www.economist.com/britain/2021/12/04/a-proposed-bill-on-conversion-therapy-could-do-more-harm-than-good

Thanks for all the links

There are four days left to respond to this consultation.

@Redshoeblueshoe

Thanks for all the links

I forgot this VERY important one!

Respond to the conversion therapy consultation
Sex Matters

Option 1: Full response

Answer all 15+ questions. Time needed: about an hour. You should use this option especially if you are an expert, therapist, clinician, teacher, researcher, lawyer etc.. or if you or your child has had an experience of conversion (including encouragement to transition).

Option 2: Quick response

Answer the two most important questions. Time needed: about 10 minutes. Choose this option if you don’t have much time or you don’t have particular answers to all the questions.

sex-matters.org/take-action/conversion-therapy-consultation/

thanks for the reminder. Will do now.

And bump

I second that bump

Thanks for the reminder, going to do this tonight.

Bump

Bump.

No-one in the UK can be complacent :(

It looks as if ordinary parents writing in has caused a bit of a panic behind the scenes. The consultation will, apparently be extended.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10285677/Parents-backlash-set-brakes-new-gender-law-amid-fears-families-prosecuted.html

More important than ever for people to contribute their views.This is an important way to help the Government understand that outside their political bubble women, in particular, are womanised about the impact the Stonewall agenda is having on the safety and welfare of vulnerable women and children.

The Gvmnt need to understand the epidemic of influence through social media and perpetuated in schools. Such a high percentage of girls now saying they are non-binary and trans. It's a perfect storm and potential catastrophe if this bill is not seriously re-written, and gender/trans needs to be handled in a very different way to sexuality as leading to medicalisation and surgery - irreversible serious harm.

I have not idea why auto correct gave me “womanised” not “worried”. Good one though. Politics should be more womanised, or women centred.

I got rather carried away, I kept putting 'KEEP GENDER IDENTITY OFF THE STATUTE BOOKS' wherever I could. And I kept mentioning detransitioners, and and Trans Widows. And WOMEN.
Get those sound bytes in there!

@oldwomanwhoruns You’re an absolute

Bumping this as I'm using it now to get my rsposne in and it helps so much.

Reminder to all Friday is the deadline. I'm always running late!

Please respond, do it briefly, make the imporatnt points, just get a response in. That's what I'm doing.

Bumping - I've just had a reminder email from sex matters & used their "10 minute" response took slightly longer as I had a bit of a rant

Did you say Friday is the deadline Malaya ?

I was only bumping !