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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Dan Bloom

Theresa May clashes with Boris Johnson over his refusal to ban trans conversion therapy

Theresa May has clashed with Boris Johnson over the Prime Minister’s refusal to ban transgender conversion therapy.

Mr Johnson announced a Conversion Therapy Bill in May to ban “conversion therapy practices intended to change sexual orientation”. It comes after a Tory pledge first made by Theresa May in 2018.

But key parts of her pledge were left out. The ban will not cover trans people after a Tory U-turn, and debates between LGBT+ campaigners and ‘gender critical’ activists who warn about irreversible changes for teenagers.

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