The first transgender MP said he is "bitterly disappointed" that people who identify as a different gender to the one they are born into will be excluded from plans to ban conversation therapy. Jamie Wallis, Conservative MP for Bridgend, last week came out as trans in a highly personal statement.
Taking to Twitter on Monday, the 37-year-old rallied against ministers’ plans to limit a ban on conversion therapy to gay people. He said it was "wrong to exclude protections for a whole group of people from a practice described as 'abhorrent'".
The backbencher argued that it would be a "broken promise" to allow conversion therapy to be banned, but for it not to apply to trans people. The outcome of a double U-turn by the Prime Minister last week, in which he appeared to flip-flop on whether to legislate against conversion therapy, has reportedly seen No 10 settle on outlawing "only gay conversion therapy, not trans".
