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Liz Truss has promised to bring forward a ban on conversion therapy following a string of resignations from the LGBT+ Advisory Panel. 

Boris Johnson. (AFP via Getty/ RICHARD POHLE/POOL) Boris Johnson has apologised to the three members of the government’s LGBT+ Advisory Panel who quit this week over inaction on conversion therapy and a “hostile environment” for LGBT+ people. When asked about the delay in delivering a conversion therapy ban during a visit to Queen’s University Belfast on Friday (12 March), Johnson told reporters: “I think this practice is repulsive and I think it’s abhorrent and I’m sorry these advisers have gone but be in no doubt that we will deal with this issue. “It is technically complex...

U.K. minister promises to ban ‘conversion therapy’ following resignations of 3 LGBTQ advisers Muri Assunção The British minister for women and equalities, Liz Truss, has promised to ban LGBTQ “conversion therapy,” following the resignation of three government advisers earlier this week. “We are very committed to LGBT equality,” Truss told ITV News on Friday. “We will shortly be bringing forward plans to ban conversion therapy, which is an abhorrent practice.” Her statement follows the resignation of three members of the government’s LGBT Advisory Council, w...

DUP MP Sammy Wilson has faced criticism for comments he made about conversion therapy. (Official parliamentary portrait) Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MP Sammy Wilson is facing criticism from Northern Ireland’s LGBT+ community after he appeared to express opposition to a ban on conversion therapy. In an email to a constituent, shared on social media, Wilson suggested that practitioners of the harmful and pseudoscientific practice should be allowed to continue operating – despite the fact that it has been repeatedly denounced by almost every mainstream psychiatric body. “I feel that t...

Liz Truss makes the commitment after three equality advisers quit over a “hostile environment” for LGBTQ people.