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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Aletha Adu Political correspondent

Gender-affirming care for children ‘form of conversion therapy’, says Badenoch

Kemi Badenoch
Kemi Badenoch said doctors were ‘fearful of giving honest clinical advice’ to children in case of being labelled transphobic. Photograph: Tayfun Salcı/Zuma Press/Shutterstock

Gender-affirming care for children could be considered “a new form of conversion therapy”, Kemi Badenoch has said.

The women and equalities minister made the claim as she confirmed plans to bring forward a bill to ban conversion practices, which seek to change or suppress someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity.

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