BinTheConversionPracticesBill ·
09/10/2026 18:07
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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24th October 2026
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