Trans therapy bill is slammed

VULNERABLE children will not get the help they need if a new attempt to ban conversion therapy is successful, say critics.

- Sam Lister

They claim the legislation would have a "chilling" impact on therapists trying to support young people who believe they have been born in the wrong body.

Liberal Democrat Baroness Burt has tabled a Private Members' Bill proposing a UK-wide ban.

Conversion therapy seeks to suppress a person's sexual or gender identity.

In practice, it means trying to stop someone from being gay, or from identifying as a different gender to their sex recorded at birth.