Submitted on Saturday 31st December 2016
Rejected on Wednesday 4th January 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
BAN CONVERSION THERAPY FOR LGBT+ IN THE UK
Conversion therapy is a psychological treatment designed to change a person's sexual orientation. In the UK people of all ages are subjected to this form of "therapy" and left with physical and mental trauma. it's cruel of punishing people because of something that they cannot change.
Mike Free, a Conservative, said the psychotherapy industry was thus far not regulated by statue and that the Government needed to “go further” to ensure that “quack” therapies were rooted out.
“It remains possible for people within the UK to be referred by an NHS professional to a psychotherapist for a so-called ‘gay cure’,” he said during a debate on the subject in Parliament’s Westminster Hall.
“Being gay is not a disaster, being gay is not an illness. To suggest otherwise is not only demeaning, it is medically wrong.”
Being prejudice is a choice. Being LGBT+ is not.
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