UK minister urged to step down over LGBT+ conversion therapy
After three years, the equalities minister is still ‘reviewing’ the issue rather than having outlawed it as expected
11 March 2021 - 16:41
London — Britain’s equalities minister should consider stepping down over the government’s failure to fulfil a pledge to ban conversion therapy, a former LGBT+ policy adviser said on Thursday after she and two others quit their jobs in protest.
The advisers resigned after the minister, Kemi Badenoch, told parliament on Monday that the government is still reviewing the issue — almost three years after vowing to ban attempts to change people’s sexual orientation or gender identity...
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