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Mr. Pate was quick to note: “I hear a lot of our [gay] siblings say, ‘I’m a survivor of conversion therapy,’ and I don’t put myself in that category. I don’t see it as something that was entirely or even mostly detrimental.” Even so, he described feeling pressured to accept reductive theories of homosexuality from a therapist who he felt was so eager for Mr. Pate to get married that he could spare no empathy for a potential partner, a sentiment echoed by several interviewees about their respective therapists.
Mr. Pate now thinks his therapist did not leave enough space for the Cross and for the possibility that he, as the
UK government disbands LGBT advisory panel after members quit in protest
Boris Johnson s government accused of dragging its feet on banning conversion therapy By Riley Gillis on April 26, 2021
The UK government has disbanded an LGBTQ advisory panel after three of its members resigned in protest.
Established under former Prime Minister Theresa May as part of the government’s LGBT Action Plan, the panel was intended to advise government ministers on “on issues and policies concerning lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.”
However, BBC News reports that the panel had not met with senior government officials since last year, and last month three members of the panel stepped down.
When Ozanne resigned, she accused the government of creating “a hostile environment for LGBT people among this administration” and hit out at an “increasing lack of engagement” with ministers acting “against our advice”.
The catalyst for her resignation was the delay in the government banning conversion practices, which it has long promised it will make illegal.
The lack of action has angered some backbench MPs. In the last Commons debate on the subject, Gary Sambrook, the Conservative MP for Birmingham Northfield, said: “I want to send a message to the government that it has been three years since this promise to ban conversion therapy. We have got to get on with it and make sure that we deliver on it.”
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Two religious leaders in Winnipeg have signed an international interfaith declaration that calls for an end to violence against and criminalization of LGBTTQ+ people and a global ban on conversion therapy.
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Diocese of Rupert’s Land Bishop Geoff Woodcroft says it is important to help people who are suffering.
Two religious leaders in Winnipeg have signed an international interfaith declaration that calls for an end to violence against and criminalization of LGBTTQ+ people and a global ban on conversion therapy. I signed because of the relationships I have within the church with transgender and LGBTTQ+ people, people I nurture and care for, just like everyone else in the church, said Geoff Woodcroft, Anglican Bishop of the Diocese of Rupert’s Land.