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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Adam Forrest

Trans Tory MP say PM has ‘broken promise’ by allowing conversion therapy for transgender people

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The first transgender MP has accused Boris Johnson’s government of breaking its “promise” by excluding trans people from a ban on conversion therapy.

Jamie Wallis, the Conservative MP for Bridgend who last week came out as trans, 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.

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