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hile we celebrate the upcoming festival of Pesach, and contemplate freedom, LGBTQ+ people in the UK still lack the legal safety they need against abusive conversion therapy. I went through this process when I was 17 because my Orthodox community and its leadership failed me. We now have a chance to ensure nobody else in this country experiences this abuse and trauma again. We are obligated to act.
According to Ban Conversion Therapy’s website [1], , it is defined as a “practice or intervention which attempts to erase, repress, cure or change someone’s sexual orientation – or lack of – and/or gender identity.”