Along with others, I have lost trust and confidence in the leadership of the EHRC to properly protect the rights of LGBT+ people.
Professionals should not be compelled to offer only ‘affirmation’ to young people looking for guidance.
It only targets quacks and charlatans who profit off misery, bigotry, and torture. Let’s leave the real professionals to do their jobs.
The promoters of the ban have used condemnation of abhorrent gay conversion therapy to promote a much wider ban.
Much like a parent intent on disciplining their naughty child, this Government’s preferred policy tool seems to be prohibition.
So it has committed to banning something it is reluctant to define, and ending something that is already unlawful.
Many of Tory MPs will be sick and tired of the self-reverential obsequies attached to the Committee’s deliberation and verdict – and of the hysteria, hate, vitriol and venom directed at a man without whom many would never have had the opportunity to serve in Parliament.