Minister for @GEOgovuk Mike Freer gives evidence to Women & Equalities Committee & accepts definition of religious practices that constitute #conversiontherapy as that set out in #CooperReport , namely it must have a 'predetermined purpose' & be directed at an individual
Today the Ozanne Foundation launched the #CooperReport a timely & detailed plan for the effective banning of LGBT+ Conversion Practices (also known as conversion therpay). The examples specifically highlight the harms of 'delayed transition' core to the @nhsengland youth GIC. #BanCP
A long-overdue report from Ozanne Foundation. The #CooperReport outlines how to ban religious conversion practices (including prayer) & why 'consent' is no defence.
Read more below π
ozanne.foundation/cooper_report
#ReportOUT #lgbtq #humanrights #lgbtq rights #banconversiontherapy
Legal experts join with parliamentarians to recommend to @GEOgovuk how to #banconversiontherapy without creating loopholes.
The Ozanne Foundation #CooperReport outlines how to ban religious conversion practices (including prayer) & why 'consent' is no defence ozanne.foundation/cooper_report
Legal experts join with parliamentarians to recommend to @GEOgovuk how to #banconversiontherapy without creating loopholes.
The Ozanne Foundation #CooperReport outlines how to ban religious conversion practices (including prayer) & why 'consent' is no defence ozanne.foundation/cooper_report
Legal experts join with parliamentarians to recommend to @GEOgovuk how to #banconversiontherapy without creating loopholes.
The Ozanne Foundation #CooperReport outlines how to ban religious conversion practices (including prayer) & why 'consent' is no defence ozanne.foundation/cooper_report
Legal experts join parliamentarians to recommend to @GEOgovuk how to #BanConversionTherapy without loopholes. The Ozanne Foundation's #CooperReport outlines how to ban religious conversion practices (including prayer) & why 'consent' is no defence: ozanne.foundation/cooper_report BanConversionTherapy
Lloyd Russell-Moyle MPπΉπ³οΈβπ explains that the key to this bill is the phrase 'predetermined purpose', which was proposed by our #BanCOnversionTherapy Legal Forum in the #CooperReport
It will work in ALL circumstances & waylays ALL people's concerns
He reassures #trans people it will protect them
@Lloyd_rm explains that on religious belief, expressing a belief is not conversion practices & is not an offense. It's only when targeted as a course of conduct at an individual with a predetermined purpose is it captured in this bill
This was also proposed in the #CooperReport
Legal experts and parliamentarians come together to recommend @GEOgovuk how to #banconversiontherapy without creating loopholes.
Read the #CooperReport which outlines how to ban religious conversion practices and why consent is no defence
More info ozanne.foundation/cooper_report/
Our #OutstandingParliamentarian award in the Upper House went to Baroness HelenaKennedy for her lifelong championing of #LGBT rights & her leadership of the group that delivered the #CooperReport , which set out how to effectively #BanConversionTherapy
Should you be allowed to consent to 'conversion therapy'?
The Legal Forum (the group behind the #CooperReport convened by Ozanne Foundation) believe not and have today issued this Memo on 'Consent, Autonomy and the Law' in relation to 'conversion therapy'.
drive.google.com/file/d/1FnCRdwβ¦
Any understanding of developmental psychology tells us that young teens are absolutely sure of something at one point and doubting at another. Add to that possible complex family and social problems and history of trauma? #CooperReport #BPScapture
HelenaKennedy chairs the Legal Forum that produced #CooperReport that recommends to @GEOgovuk how best to #banconversiontherapy
Read why she believes any ban must include religious practices & why both criminal & civil law is needed in Guardian news at bit.ly/Cooper2021HK
The #CooperReport was released this month - with contribution from Helen Hall πΊπ¦ of Nottingham Law School - addressing how to legislate to #banconversiontherapy once and for all ππ¬π
#ResearchReimagined
This sadly proves why a ban is so urgently needed.
As the #banconversiontherapy Legal Forum who produced #CooperReport has recommended to @GEOgovuk - we must ban any practice with a 'predetermined purpose'.
That's also why The Church of England & The Methodist Church are calling for a ban!
Really key article by Richard Wagenlander on dangers of allowing an 'informed consent' loophole in proposed #conversiontherapy legislation.
Richard Wagenlander was instrumental in writing early drafts of #CooperReport & working with Jonathan Cooper, myself & others in #BanConversionTheraypy Legal Forum
βKeep alert, stand firm in your faith, be courageous, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love.β
1 Corinthians 16:13-14. A good verse for todayβs publication of The #CooperReport on legislating to #banconversiontherapy . Proud to be part of the Legal Forum which produced it.