Statement on Prime Minister's Comments on Conversion Therapy and GRA Consultation

The Officers of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global LGBT+ Rights welcome the Prime Minister’s renewal of the commitment to ban “conversion therapy”. We also welcome the commitment to respond to the consultation on the Gender Recognition Act in the summer and look forward to this opportunity being taken to not only bring the legal rights of trans people up to date, but also to protect all LGBT+ people from inappropriate conversion pressure from wherever it comes.

A comprehensive statement making clear a commitment to improve the availability of properly regulated and licensed gender identity services and to reassure the wider public that the equal place of trans people in our society is not at the expense of anyone else would enable the U.K. to continue to claim a global leadership role on LGBT+ rights.

Delivering these human rights for all LGBT+ people, now to be reinforced by sanctions against individuals responsible for the most egregious breaches around the world, brought up to date with GRA reform, would be a welcome recommitment to the values of Britain shared across the political spectrum.

We look forward to this announcement on Parliament’s return in September.