Léa Chvrl A new report being used by LGBT lobby groups to put pressure on the Government to ban so-called conversion therapy has been dismissed as “fundamentally flawed”. The 2020 Conversion Therapy & Gender Identity Survey was produced by Stonewall, Mermaids, GIRES, LGBT Foundation and the Ozanne Foundation. Published last month, it concluded that attempts to change people’s ‘gender identity’ occur in the UK, that such practices are “harmful”, and that there is broad support for a ban. However, Michael Biggs, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Oxford, said the report lacks credibility. Small cohort Prof Biggs was scathing of the way the 20-page report was compiled, noting that it appears to have been produced without the involvement of any credible social scientist, and that the study’s cohort was “not sampled from a defined population, as in a proper scientific survey”.