Conversion therapy ban would criminalise Christian parents stopping children seeking transgender treatment
Leading QC and Church of England minister say proposed ban would close down freedom of speech, conscience and religion
10 April 2021 • 3:27pm
People celebrate as GPs in Northern Ireland welcomed a Government move to ban conversion therapy
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The Government’s proposed ban on conversion therapy would criminalise Christian parents who want to stop their children seeking transgender treatment, a leading QC and Church of England minister have warned.
In a formal legal opinion sent to ministers last week, Philip Havers QC, a prominent human rights lawyer, wrote banning conversion therapy would unintentionally make it illegal for Christians to tell a child questioning their gender that they should remain in their birth sex.
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