Landmark LGBT+ conference ‘cancelled’ after trans conversion therapy U-turn
The Metro says the Government has been forced to cancel a landmark international LGBT+ conference after it was revealed transgender people will be excluded from a conversion therapy ban, it is understood.
The ‘Safe To Be Me: Global Equality Conference’ promised to bring together policymakers, activists and experts to ‘protect and promote the rights of LGBT people around the world’.
But ministers were left humiliated when more than 100 charities pulled out in response to changes to a promised ban on all conversion therapy.
An outlaw on the so-called ‘treatments’ was promised four years ago – but news leaked last week that a U-turn had secretly been made.
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