Ask your MP to sign EDM #219 Against Gay-to-Straight Conversion Therapy
EDM #219, tabled by a cross-party group of MPs including Sandra Osborne (Lab), Crispin Blunt (Con) and Stephen Gilbert (LD), calls on the government to ban conversion therapy for under-18s, prevent psychotherapists from practicing conversion and investigate links between medical professionals and conversion therapists.
Please feel free to use our draft letter and write to your local MP asking them to support the EDM.
Download our Petition to End Conversion Therapy (PDF)
Post to our Return Address by Friday 5th July
This petition will be formally presented to Parliament by Diana Johnson MP on Tuesday 9th July. In effect, this means the deadline for posting them to our return address is Friday 5th July as we’ll have to take the sheets to Parliament and sort things out. It is only available in paper format.
It declares that the petitioners believe that being lesbian, gay, or bisexual is not a disease, disorder, or illness and cannot therefore be “cured” or changed. We therefore call on the government to control “conversion” or “reparative” therapy by banning it completely for those under the age of 18 and making it available to those over 18 only after informed written consent, and only when carried out by a licensed medical practitioner.
Stop ‘Gay Cure’ Charlatans Ruining Lives in the UK
In California it is now ILLEGAL to offer conversion therapy or ‘gay cures’ – the erroneous and harmful pretence that a person’s sexuality can be changed by therapy – to under-18s. But in Britain, anybody can set themselves up as a Psychotherapist and get away with effectively abusing their patients.
Although the main psychotherapy associations have said that this therapy does not work, does harm, and therefore should not be carried out, there is a loophole in the law which means it can still be offered. We believe the law must be changed to prevent people’s lives being ruined. Homosexuality is not a disease, and it cannot be cured! Please download our petition and post completed sheets back to us to help get the law changed. The deadline for posting is Friday 5th July.
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Return Completed Petition Forms to:
Hull and East Riding Labour LGBT+ Network
c/o Sycamore Suite
Community Enterprise Centre
Cottingham Road
Hull
HU5 2DH
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