BAN CONVERSION THERAPY FOR LGBT+ IN THE UK

Rejected 18 signatures

What the petition asks

Conversion therapy is a psychological treatment designed to change a person's sexual orientation. In the UK people of all ages are subjected to this form of "therapy" and left with physical and mental trauma. it's cruel of punishing people because of something that they cannot change.

Mike Free, a Conservative, said the psychotherapy industry was thus far not regulated by statue and that the Government needed to “go further” to ensure that “quack” therapies were rooted out.
“It remains possible for people within the UK to be referred by an NHS professional to a psychotherapist for a so-called ‘gay cure’,” he said during a debate on the subject in Parliament’s Westminster Hall.
“Being gay is not a disaster, being gay is not an illness. To suggest otherwise is not only demeaning, it is medically wrong.”
Being prejudice is a choice. Being LGBT+ is not.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

Make offering Gay Conversion Therapy a criminal offence in the UK

Timeline

31 Dec 2016	Petition opened for signatures
4 Jan 2017	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 18

Status Rejected

Rejected 4 Jan 2017

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