I'd rather have added this to an existing thread bt I couldn't find one that fitted so...
https://thecritic.co.uk/what-do-labour-think-a-conversion-therapy-is/
Eta
Like a lot of her articles it's hard to pick out a sentence to quote, without quoting the whole damn thing, she always packs in so much. But this'll do as a taster
It isn’t necessary to tell someone that the truth will set them free — often it won’t, and it’s painful. But the truth is the truth, and I cannot see a way in which a “trans-inclusive ban on conversion practices” would not make it impossible to actively guide someone towards acceptance of the things they cannot change. In this way the comparison with anorexia is absolutely apt. Telling someone their sex cannot change is not the same as telling someone they can’t love the person they love; it’s the same as telling someone that they are not superhuman, because no one is. There is an equivalence between “gay” and “not gay”; neither is better than the other. There is no equivalence between “in flight from your body” and “not in flight from your body”. The latter isn’t perfect, but the former is worse — not as a judgement on a human being, but as a measure of a person’s capacity to be at relative peace with themselves and others.