But “conversion therapy” is the wrong label. Why does the BBC keep using it?
More than 100 organisations have pulled out of the UK’s first ever global LGBT+ conference over the government’s stance on conversion therapy.
The UK government had promised to ban conversion therapy but last week decided to exclude conversion therapy for transgender people in the ban.
Probably because it’s not conversion therapy. Sexual orientation is not the same as “gender identity.” The two are different. The most noticeable and consequential difference is that sexual orientation entails no surgical or pharmaceutical interventions at all. This discrepancy is why medical professionals need to be very cautious about agreeing with the self-diagnoses of adolescents who say they are trans: … Read the rest