The BBC has just published a Stonewall press release without checking the figures - or even wondering how plausible they can be.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3w1gl530vvo.amp
Including the claim that 1 in 10 “LGBTQ people” - they don’t explain how they define this” have undergone exorcism.
As no more than 5% of the U.K. population attends church of ANY kind, as few denominations offer exorcism for ANY cause, and as in 2017 it was found that <2% of LGBTQ people had been offered ANY form of “conversion therapy”, this is obvious nonsense!
How come Parry did not query it?
For the figures to be remotely accurate, ministers of religion across the country would be conducting a “conversion therapy” exorcism for every 3 people they marry. Surely someone would have noticed?
The polling data now released by OpiniumResearch shows no info on how respondents were recruited - obviously a factor - and that the polling company has inadvertently swapped the names of two columns of data: “Transgender” & “another gender identity” between different pages.
That’s a difference between 18 people, & 214 people.
How is the BBC so easily misled on this issue? Where are the fact checkers?
The Stonewall press release is clearly intended to lobby Parliament on the proposed Conversion Therapy Bill.
I’d pretty much given up complaining to the BBC but I’m having another go as this is shocking!