Send a postcard to Rishi Sunak to ban conversion therapy in the UK https://www.stonewall.org.uk/our-work/campaigns/dear-rishi-bct #BanConversionTherapy #NoConversionTherapy #RishiSunak

A few hashtags relating to something that still happens in far too many countries but really needs to stop, because in all its guises it is abuse, if not torture:

#ABA
#BanABA
#BanConversionTherapy
#ConversionPractice
#ConversionTherapy
#EndConversionTherapy
#PBS
#StopTheShock

State lawmakers heard testimony Tuesday, June 6, on a pair of bills to #BanConversionTherapy for minors in #Michigan. Supporters of the ban told the Senate Housing and Human Services Committee #ConversionTherapy has negative, long-lasting effects on an #LGBTQ person’s life.

https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2023/06/banning-conversion-therapy-in-michigan-would-protect-lgbtq-children-supporters-say.html

#news #politics #MILeg #LGBTRights #LGBTQRights

I've just asked my MP to support a full and comprehensive ban on conversion practices, with no more delays, no loopholes and no excuses. Email your MP and ask them to #BanConversionTherapy now � https://bit.ly/BCT-email-mp

So-called conversion therapy is ALWAYS barbaric

This incredible report from Galop looks into first-hand survivor experiences from this cruel practice. Let these stories serve as a lesson: we need to #BanConversionTherapy NOW

Read the incredible report
https://galop.org.uk/resource/there-was-nothing-to-fix-lgbt-survivors-experiences-of-conversion-practices/

Polling for UK LGBTQ+ anti-abuse charity Galop shows that 18% of LGBTQ+ people including 43% of trans people—a total of over 400,000—have been subjected to attempts to change, "cure" or suppress their sexual orientation or gender identity. This is higher than previous estimates.

The UK government announced last week it will ban conversion practices, but the legal wording proposed is not yet available.

Leni Morris, chief executive of Galop, said: "These numbers finally show a full picture of how the LGBT+ community are subjected to abuse from people who want to change who we are. With so many of us facing abuse, violence, and sexual assault to try to change who we are, it is vital that the government follows through on its promises and brings about a swift, comprehensive ban to protect victims and those at risk, and provide support to survivors."

But some Conservative MPs say they may vote no, claiming that concerned parents and professional clinicians could be caught up in a ban as well as fundamentalist religious preachers.

#ConversionTherapy #BanConversionTherapy #LGBTQ #UKpol

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/25/fifth-lgbt-people-uk-subjected-conversion-practices

RT @stonewalluk@twitter.com

CW: conversion practices, transphobia.

This is the reality of what conversion "therapy" looks like. Survivors suffer from lifelong damage and suffering.

#BanConversionTherapy now. No more delays.

Watch the full video and share ➡️ https://bit.ly/BCT-film

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/stonewalluk/status/1616376525305028608

I've just asked my MP to support a full and comprehensive ban on conversion practices, with no more delays, no loopholes and no excuses.

Email your MP and ask them to #BanConversionTherapy now ➡️ https://bit.ly/BCT-email-mp

Now, we need to hold the UK Government to account: a full ban must be implemented, with no more delays, no excuses, and no loopholes left for abusers to exploit.

CW/TW
https://youtu.be/AiPO40wJlOQ

#BanConversionTherapy
#BanConversionTherapyforall

RT @JayneOzanne@twitter.com

Very grateful to @ChamberVoice@twitter.com, a free parliamentary publication that goes to all MPs, civil servants & others, for interviewing me about the urgent need for legislation to #BanConversionTherapy.

Full publication can be read http://bit.ly/Dec22Chamber - this article on Page 36-37

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/JayneOzanne/status/1603412596358512642

RT @APPGLGBT@twitter.com

Today in Women and Equalities Oral Questions, MPs across parties spoke up in support of a trans-inclusive ban on conversion practices to be brought forward in legislation without delay @NiaGriffithMP@twitter.com @Gibbo4Darlo@twitter.com @kirstenoswald@twitter.com #BanConversionTherapy @BanCTorg@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/APPGLGBT/status/1597939048383148032

If you at all care about #humanrights and #socialjustice then please sign this petition.

#NeuroDivergentRights have lived in the shadow of #LGBTQRights and have suffered many grievances. Help end one of them today.

https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/ban-autistic-conversion-therapy-in-minnesota?source=rawlink&utm_source=rawlink&share=6740ff37-aad4-4cbc-9fd0-1c737e61d39a

Remember: Until we are all #free, none of us are.

#RightsForAll
#Feminism
#BanConversionTherapy
#FuckTheGOP

@mister_goldfish

The fact that so-called "Conversion Therapy" is still allowed in so much of the modern world is disgusting.

#ConversionTherapy is a vile tactic that doesn't actually work, only in #FalseResearch pushed by right-wingers

#BanConversionTherapy

Absolutely love my local organizations!

🥰🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
The mission to #BanConversionTherapy continues!

We are proud to have our name on this letter.

We need the Government to act on it's promise and ban conversion therapy for ALL

#banconversiontherapy

RT @BanCTorg@twitter.com

We have written to Women & Equalities Minister @KemiBadenoch@twitter.com to call for the Government to #BanConversionTherapy for all LGBTQ+ people.

4 years and 5 Ministers for Women & Equalities on, the Government must finally act on its promise to end this abuse.

@GEOgovuk@twitter.com @StuartAndrew@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BanCTorg/status/1595041248389304320

I feel like we need to convince Florence Ashley to come over here. Anyone who can get away with having footnotes like this routinely published in peer-reviewed journals *needs* to be part of the Fediverse.
For example, from https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-law-medicine-and-ethics/article/transcending-the-gender-binary-under-international-law-advancing-healthrelated-human-rights-for-trans-populations/0E42156B773D0665091F19CCA0F06AF5
#TransAcademia #FlorenceAshley
#BanConversionTherapy

RT @Nancy_M_K
I gave a talk @tedxlondon on the need to #BanConversionTherapy, and why that ban MUST protect trans people. Please watch and share!

"How can a trans child need *less* protection than a cis child?"

https://www.ted.com/talks/nancy_kelley_why_the_ban_on_conversion_therapy_must_include_trans_people

Following a petition signed by 145 000 people, a Westminster Hall debate is currently underway regarding the UK government’s decision to drop #trans and #NonBinary people from their (weak) plans to #BanConversionTherapy (which are perhaps better referred to as conversion practices)

There have been some sound problems, but everything will be in Hansard, the official parliamentary report

Most MPs seem to be in favour of a total ban 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

https://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/734dd338-e431-46a2-abd1-7e33be586f63

Your favourite anti-trans hate group, a registered charity (still!), platformed by the BBC, and with the ear of the UK Government, now has National Lottery funding to target young adults with conversion therapy in the guise of a ‘helpline’ 😖

#transphobia #LGBAlliance
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
#BanConversionTherapy

https://twitter.com/lgbtglitterati/status/1535293901912801283