Conversion Therapy 2022-01-12
2022-01-12
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Concern about proposed legislation banning conversion therapy potentially criminalising therapists and parents for expressing certain views to children.
If the Government will ensure that proposed legislation to ban conversion therapy will not criminalise therapists and parents for telling children that it is not possible to be born in the wrong body.
The Government's proposals will protect freedom of speech. The proposals will not affect a parent's right to express their views and raise their children with their values. Parents, clinicians and teachers will, of course, continue to be able to have open and challenging conversations with young people or others about their sexual orientation or whether they are transgender or not.
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Concern about instances where parents have been reported to social services for expressing certain views regarding their child's identity. Request for assurance on the protection of such rights.
I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that answer. There have been instances of parents being reported to social services for not simply affirming their child's new trans identity. Will my hon. Friend assure parents that their right to not simply affirm their child's new identity will be protected in the face of the ideological capture of some of our public services?
Parents and carers will, of course, have the right to express their views on how a child identifies.
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