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Public views sought on the End Conversion Therapy petition
Created: 26/07/2021The Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee is inviting your views on a petition that focuses on ending Conversion Therapy in Scotland (PE1817: End Conversion Therapy).
The petition was lodged in August 2020. It calls on the Scottish Parliament “to urge the Scottish Government to ban the provision or promotion of LGBT+ conversion therapy in Scotland”.
In the previous session of the Parliament (Session 5) the Public Petitions Committee received written evidence from:
The Scottish Government noted that the UK Government published its LGBT Action Plan in 2018. The plan included a commitment to ban conversion therapy in the UK. The UK Government announced measures would be brought forward to ban conversion therapy in the Queen’s speech. This was followed by a commitment to launch a consultation and then introduce legislation banning conversion therapy in the UK.
After consideration, the Public Petitions Committee referred the petition to the Session 5 Equalities and Human Rights Committee. That committee received further written evidence jointly from Stonewall Scotland, Equality Network, Scottish Trans Alliance and LGBT Youth Scotland.
You can share your views on the petition here.