#BinTheBill Campaign and Day of Action: Bin the Draft Conversion Practices Bill (England & Wales)

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NC. Posting on behalf of the #BinTheBill Campaign, encouraging support for the #BinTheBill Day of Action on Sat 24th Oct.

Links to further info, materials, social media accounts, video explainers, etc.
https://linktr.ee/binthebill

We are a grassroots group working to prevent the dangerous Conversion Practices Draft Bill becoming law. We have listed links on our webpage to some of the other organisations who are concerned about the Draft Bill so you can also view their objections.

STATEMENT OF CONCERNS

We are parents, teachers, safeguarding professionals, feminists, lesbian, gay and bisexual, detransitioners, lawyers, researchers, therapists and clinicians. We unequivocally oppose coercion, abuse, and fraudulent attempts to change anyone’s sexual orientation or sex.

This draft Conversion Practices Bill would do the opposite of what it claims. It weaponises the real history of conversion practices against same-sex attracted people in order to shield and advance the modern conversion of gender-confused children and adults into medicalised transgender pathways.

Legislation that cannot distinguish between abuse and ethical care, free speech, or parental responsibility is not protection — it is ideological capture of the criminal law.

The Bill is legally reckless.

Coercion, abuse and fraud are already crimes. Section 1(2)’s sweeping reference to “any conduct” risks criminalising ordinary conversation, parental guidance, teaching and clinical exploration. There is no statutory defence of reasonableness. The Bill would introduce the nebulous, scientifically unsupported categories of “non-binary” and “gender-fluid” into statute. The result will be a chilling effect, unnecessary criminal investigations, and a surge in family-court disputes — all at a time of national financial strain.

It endangers child safeguarding and exploratory therapy.

Parents must be able to question, challenge and guide their children without fear of investigation. The Bill shows none of the respect for parental responsibility or reasonable behaviour that exists in existing coercive-control law. Grandparents, teachers and social workers will self-censor. Children could even face consequences for refusing to affirm an adult’s belief.

Legitimate exploratory therapy is not conversion. Clinicians must be free to help patients examine complex feelings without predetermined outcomes. The Bill ignores child development, desistance rates, and the adult duty to protect children from irreversible harm. Fear of prosecution will drive cautious professionals out of this work, leaving vulnerable people without support.

It is homophobic in effect.

A high proportion of those identifying as transgender are same-sex attracted. Social transition is an active intervention that locks many young lesbians and gay boys onto a medical pathway of infertility, sexual dysfunction and lifelong health risks. Helping a same-sex attracted young person accept their orientation risks being treated as a crime. This is conversion practice by another name.

It silences women, academics and dissenters.

Women must remain free to name biological sex and defend sex-based rights. Academics and teachers must remain free to pursue evidence and follow safeguarding guidance. The Bill treats contested belief as settled fact and places those who dissent at legal risk. Detransitioners — already often isolated and traumatised — will find it even harder to obtain honest support.

A law that cannot separate coercion from care, or ideology from reality, will harm the people it claims to protect while eroding liberty, professional judgement and parental authority.

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The Bill is likely in the bag with Labour, LD, Green MPs.
The big Q is Tory MPs.
They're the ones who should be most Qd.

It'll go through on the wave of sentiment and unthinking activism with no actual critical thinking or capacity to do the job, which is characteristic of far too many current MPs. Hence the EHRC having to gently offer to do a quick powerpoint workshop to explain to high salaried law makers how making laws actually works only a couple of months ago. And it'll go through in part because the govt very reluctantly had to protect women and gay legal protections against the TQ and this is a sop to throw. So more badly drafted and badly thought out (and in this case highly manipulated) law on top of bad law.

And then we all can sit back and watch the huge raft of very obvious consequences that a child could have seen coming. This is currently life in the UK. There need to be stringent capacity tests for anyone standing as an MP.

If it does go through however, I hope very much we see a lot of cases from detransitioners, gay people and trans widows.

Yes, spot on! Do prioritise Labour MPs who are "on side" or "on the fence" - the same goes for Labour Peers.

TOP PRIORITY AT THIS STAGE ARE LABOUR MPS BECAUSE

• the Labour Manifesto included a promise to introduce a Conversion Practices Bill - the Labour Party and Labour Government "own" this initiative, which is even more flawed and will prove even more controversial than the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991
• if a Conversion Practices Bill gets listed for debate during this Parliament then Labour MPs will be whipped to vote for it and it will pass

SOCIAL MEDIA

Many MPs post on Social Media (though it might be their Comms Team actually making the posts). If comments are open, we can reply to their posts raising out concerns.

We can also use local groups on Social Media to raise public awareness, eg. Facebook local "Community" Groups and Pages; NextDoor. Some allow anonymous accounts or anonymous posts if anyone is wary of a backlash from local trans activists.

LOCAL PRESS AND MEDIA

The "Suggested Letter to Newspapers" is another way of raising awareness with of local MPs as well as the wider public:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fd8g5GbR1tqxlz5OgGB-wFRhMbJOF7TH/view

LETTERS AND EMAILS TO MPs

MPs will only attend to letters/emails from Constituents and we all need to write to our MPs - even if we are cursed with a gender identity zealot.

https://www.theyworkforyou.com/

COUNCILS

It is well worth writing to Councils.

Firstly, the impact of the proposed Draft Bill on council services is off-scale financially and practically.

Secondly, Councillors are as integral to political parties as MPs. When they understand the implications for councils they will be very concerned and will feed that back through their Party machinery and to MPs.

Check out Sarah Phillimore's Briefing Note with its Suggested Letter to Councils:
https://sarahphillimore.substack.com/p/briefing-note-on-the-conversion-practices

TRADE UNIONS

A huge disappointment in the whole sex vs gender arena obviously and hopelessly ill-informed. But they fund the Labour Party so are worth lobbying by anyone who can grapple with the democratic structures of their own union or via Social Media, Letters to publications, etc.

There are more resources on BinTheBill on Linktree

(I am avoiding linking directly to Linktree because I think that might be what is triggering all my posts to be hidden while sent to Mods for Review).

At this stage, Pre-Legislative Scrutiny, it is Labour MPs who need to be lobbied.

The Labour Party Manifesto included a commitment to bring forward a Conversion Practices Ban Bill so:

• this will be supported by the Labour Government
• Labour MPs will be required to support it or risk losing the Whip

The current Draft is staggeringly poor and, given the composition of the Pre-Legislative Scrutiny Committee, it is unlikely to be improved before being introduced to Parliament for debate. At which point, in both the Commons and the Lords, it will be steamrollered through - a re-run of the Gender Recognition Bill's progress in 2004.

The best people to persuade the Government to take a step back and consider the huge electoral damage that this Bill would wreak are Labour's own MPs.

Labour is already under fire for attempting to re-introduce a Blasphemy Law by the back door via the "Islamophobia" aka "Anti-Muslim Hostility" definition and is now on the back foot:
https://freespeechunion.org/news/angela-rayners-department-admits-it-still-has-the-islamophobia

The Conversion Practices Draft Bill represents yet another attack on free speech via another "Blasphemy Law":
https://freespeechunion.org/news/government-brings-forward-conversion-therapy-ban-which-will

Thou shalt not doubt the sanctity of Transgender Identity in all its infinite imaginings and manifestations!

Yes everyone who has a Labour MP needs to write to them asap. The vast majority are not aware of the ramifications of this bill.

Sonia Sodha on X debunking Bridget Phillipson's false reassurances in her article in The Independent:

https://x.com/soniasodha/status/2112203389438439534

Threadreader:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2112203389438439534.html

Archived: archive.ph/O4U9j

Anyone who protests this Bill is supporting child abuse.

Simple as.

It's closing a loophole which allowed abusive parents to excuse their violence & intimidation as 'conversion therapy'.

The claims otherwise, are lies.

Social services won't remove children who are being actively neglected. The suggestion they'll remove them for 'discussion' is a lie.

This is not about women's rights.

It's about the rights of physically, emotionally and sexually abusive parents to terrorise their LGBT children.

Opposition to the Bill is being directly funded and encouraged by the homophobic Christian right.

Anyone who opposes it, is advocating for child abuse.

Don't fall for this.

It's as far removed from heroism as you can get.

Stand up for abused kids. Support the Bill.

(Which'll pass anyway. Where exactly was all this organising when the justice system was destroyed under the Tories and left the few rape victims whose cases the CPS actually took up to wait EIGHT YEARS to reach trial? Nonexistent for a reason.)

As has been explained in painstaking detail, there are no 'loopholes'; there is plenty of existing legislation to cover violence and intimidation.

Thanks for bumping the thread @TransParentlyAnnoyed . I've downloaded Sarah Phillimore's briefing note.

Er, no.

You lost any authority to speak when you posted that you support breast binding on top of your batshit insane "kids know their gender ID at 5".
If you're the benchmark for child safety, we're really lost.

The opposition to this badly drafted BIll is funded by us: mums and dads, grandparents and therapists, lesbians and gay and straight, putting in our own small sums of money to pay for brilliant designs to be inexpensively printed so we can share them with our friends and colleagues to distribute In the streets to alert parents to the threat to their good parenting, to try to prevent the trans bullies from converting too many gay or lesbian, or neurodiverse, or multiply traumatised, young people to a life of medicalisation, unnecessary and irreversible harm, and having to live a lie.

It’s well organised because we are all conscientious citizens, determined to demonstrate to MPs that, whatever the question, this Bill is not the answer; it’s full of ignorant or intended untruths.
All the offences that might be committed are already illegal; furthermore those offences already carry higher possible sentences than those provided by this Bill. We have asked ministers and civil servants to say which “gaps” exist in the law and need to be plugged. They cannot say.

We have asked those (actually very well US-funded) bodies which were actively consulted in writing this draft Bill why they are so keen to impose these restrictions on our human rights to look after our young children, why their resulting Bill is so vague and nebulous; they won’t answer, they can’t answer, without giving themselves away. Their purpose is to insert “gender identity” and “non-binary” in the law. They want to silence any opposition with their muzzling of anyone who understands and stands for reality. They want to broaden “transgender” beyond the female and male transsexuals acknowledged by the Gender Recognition Act and they want to recognise any sort of identity, “not limited to any transgender identity” - completely undefined.
How do you create a criminal offence that is focused around “attempting to change someone’s ‘gender identity’ when that law does not even define intelligibly what it means to have such an identity at all?
The Bill is the worst piece of attempted lawmaking since the Dangerous Dogs Act: lawmakers saw a problem, decided they had to do something about it; and their ill-considered, badly-drafted and unworkable mongrel of a law is the answer. “Job done; move on; problem (not) solved.”
We deserve better-written laws than this if we genuinely seek to protect the vulnerable and solve a problem that is still to be properly defined.

Well said, @BinTheBill . We've seen enough poorly drafted legislation lately, and this Bill is an abomination, supported by fools, but having malign intent.

Entirely this.

This is the link to the Phillipson article https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=www.independent.co.uk/voices/conversion-practices-bridget-phillipson-lgbt-transgender-sexuality-b3068715.html

Hope the link works as both the archive web sites dont seem to be working today.

As Bridget Phillipson is the Minister for Women and Equalities and the Chair of the Labour Party I wonder if this article in a national newspaper is meant to be an unofficial official Labour Party statement.

Child abuse is already criminalised.

No vulnerable child needs this bill.

Its going to harm countless children.

Yes, why anyone would support this is bizarre.

This bill actually undermines aspects of statutory safeguarding guidance - both in terms of definitions and practice. As ever it adultifies children - the same issue that runs through all transgenderism.

That any responsible adult promotes the bill is shameful.

Do Labour MPs back it? I’m not sure where it is at in the process.

I agree with you absolutely

There is a Link Collection called “Bridget Phillipson’s Misinformation” on the Bin The Bill Linktree.

So far there are links to

• BP's article in the Independent (archived)
• Open Letter to BP from the Gay Men's Network
• Sex Matters' Response

https://linktr.ee/binthebill#607886894

There is a Subscribe Button at the top of the Bin The Bill Linkree for email updates when new links are added anywhere on the Linktree.

The ones who back it havent read it.

They are sheep who will follow the whip.

Are you seriously suggesting abused kids cannot get help Bill is Law? If so we have failed as a society to protect our most vulnerable.

Children are already protected from abusive parents. If not then someone is not doing their job. This is because no new criminal acts are being brought in everything is already a criminal offence. Rape, neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse this are already illegal.

But what this Bill will do is give glitter families and transactivists the power they so crave to interfere with parents who are telling their children: no you cannot be the opposite sex because no human being can change sex.

This Bill will allow those creepy individuals to intervene in private family life, make allegations and make family life intolerable.

Yes, no parent will probably ever go to jail, but those ideologically captured cultists will make the life of parent hell. And as we know the process is the punishment.

Yes, if someone is reported and has a career that is part of a professional registration regime eg teaching, medicine, social work, social care, childcare, then they will be suspended, may lose their job and may never be able to work again.

Mumsnet users fear bill will convert them into crims
Four in five in a Mumsnet poll agreed parents should have the right to tell children they are not “in the wrong body”, after a post warned the draft law could criminalise such conversations

Mumsnet users have spoken: four in five poll voters agreed parents should have the right to tell their children they’re not “in the wrong body” and can’t be “transgender”. Of the 898 users who responded to the poll posted last Thursday, 80 per cent agreed with the post and 20 per cent disagreed.

The post warned that under the proposed draft Conversion Practices Bill parents could face up to five years in prison for “denying a child or an adult’s transgender identity.” It also asked whether courts could order them to comply if they “objected to a child being ‘transed’ at school or elsewhere.”

Full article:
https://www.terftimes.com/p/mumsnet-users-fear-bill-will-convert-them-into-crims/

On X: x.com/TERF_Times/status/2114722585279955000