Jayne Ozanne, a former government adviser on LGBT + issues, said the approach, announced Thursday night after a double-edged sword, “left the most vulnerable group completely unprotected”. He added: “This catastrophe has made the Conservatives 20 years back in their relationship with the LGBT community.” Conversion practices seek to change or suppress a person’s sexuality or gender identity. In a leaked newsletter on Thursday, it emerged that Boris Johnson had pledged to outlaw them. However, faced with the reaction of the activists for a ban and the deputies from all parties, he turned again within a few hours. The government is now pushing to make conversion practices illegal – if only those related to sexual orientation and not gender identity. This means that the ban, which will be introduced in the Queen’s speech in May, will cover homosexuals and bisexuals in England and Wales but not trans people. Secretary of State Liz Truss, who also holds equality but was kept in the dark during the first turn, met Johnson on Downing Street on Friday on her return from a trip to India. Her allies said she was relaxed with the government’s stance after the second turn of the day. However, LGBT activists said that Trash was “alive” in the series of events that took place on International Transparency Day. Ozanne, who resigned from the government’s LGBT advisory panel in March last year to protest the breach of the promised ban, said the exclusion of trans people from the law was a “message of impunity” to those responsible for their actions. . “My fear is that the prime minister has succumbed to an anti-trans narrative when he should be protecting this very vulnerable group of people,” he added. Paul Farmer, managing director of Mind, said the mental health charity was “deeply disappointed to find that the UK government has chosen to exclude trans people from the ban on these harmful practices.” “The government’s research suggests that trans people are much more likely to have undergone or been offered conversion treatment, so this exclusion simply does not make sense. We need a complete, no-gap ban that protects everyone.” Conservative MP Alicia Cairns wrote on Twitter: “We can not exclude our trans friends – why should criminals and charlatans be allowed to continue to cause them lifelong harm?” Labor leader Keir Starmer said the government must “keep its promises.” Instead, he “tried to get us all to talk about conversion therapy because they did not want to focus on the cost-of-living crisis,” he added. Supporting the government’s approach, Nikki da Costa, the former director of legislative affairs at No. 10, said the inclusion of trans people could hamper non-coercive discussions on complex gender identity issues. “Doctors, therapists and parents would be discouraged from exploring with a child any feelings about what else might be happening for fear of being told they are trying to change a child’s identity,” he told the BBC. But Ozanne said Da Costa “confused good healthcare practice with conversion therapy. The latter has to do with telling you that you can only be straight or gendered, that you can not explore who you are. “ Ozan said she was flooded with messages of support from lawmakers from all parties who “dealt properly with the issues”. Trash was at a dinner party in India when the leaked document appeared and he boarded a flight to the UK shortly afterwards. The government briefing states: “While Liz is not ideologically committed to the law, she is likely to be concerned about ownership of the new post, having personally pledged to deliver the bill.” Troy’s allies insisted she was happy with the government’s position. “It brought us back to where we thought we should be: with the common rationale for freedom of speech and to ensure that we protect people under the age of 18 from making irreversible trans decisions,” said one aide.
