From the Telegraph:
Labour has been accused of “massively overestimating” the scale of conversion therapy in the UK.
The Government has refused to reveal the actual number of calls received by a helpline established for people to raise concerns about conversion therapy, an abusive practice that tries to change the identity of someone who is transgender or gay….
The three-year contract for the helpline was won by the charity Galop, which campaigns against conversion therapy. It was later extended by two years.
Since it was established, neither the Government nor the charity have published details of the numbers ringing each year.
The only information Galop has provided was in a report published earlier this year, which highlighted 195 cases of conversion therapy it had dealt with over the past three years.
It said that, of these, “clients self-referred for support through Galop’s national LGBT+ abuse and violence helpline or via Galop’s website in 29 cases”. Examples of conversion practices cited by the charity included using the wrong pronoun.
Oh boy. We’re going to make it illegal to “mis-gender” – to refuse to call a bloke in a dress “she”. This is where we’re headed with the Conversion Practices Bill.
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