The new law to ban all forms of conversion therapy will include transgender people.
Conversion therapy - sometimes called "gay cure" therapy - tries to supress someone's sexual orientation or stop them identifying as a different gender to their sex recorded at birth.
Cast your mind back to 2018, when the government made a raft of announcements after its landmark LGBT Action Plan.Since then, there have been several U-turns, endless debates in the media and even resignations from the government's LGBT advisory panel. The government had announced last year that it was entirely scrapping plans for a ban, before quickly backtracking.
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