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Westminster has published its conversion practices bill: www.gov.uk/government/p... We will be looking more carefully at it in the coming days - initial concerns include the lack of mention of suppression of behaviours and relying on definitions for sexuality now unfit due to SC judgement on "sex"

The carve out for "healthcare" fails our "no exemptions or exceptions" criteria because it leaves an enormous loophole for any conversion practices provider to claim they are practicing healthcare. This would make the ban potentially completely useless. bsky.app/profile/joly...

This bill, in its current form, simply is not fit for practice. It is, as far as we can see, so short because it has been rushed out for political reasons and leaves an enormous loophole any conversion practices provider could use. We hope to see a Scottish bill in the upcoming ScotGov PfG.

The draft bill also includes the discredited concept of these practices involving "causing to have a trans identity" - and similar for non-heterosexual orientations. There are no such conversion practices. Conversion practices are anti-LGBTQ+ abuse. The idea of pro-LGBTQ+ conversion is a myth.