In 2014, during research for a book on lesbian and gay culture I decided to challenge some of the mythology around what conversion therapy actually is and is not. So why all the confusion? What does this all mean for gay and dysphoric youth? And how does it relate to my own experience of conversion therapy? Neither was it clear about “the meaning of ‘transgender’ - a term which has no clear legal meaning, is potentially wider than the concept of gender reassignment in current UK law, and is understood by different people in different ways”. As the EHRC rightly points out, the Government consultation document on the topic contained “no clear definition of what will amount to “conversion therapy”. This week the government has banned conversion therapy for gays but, in a major kerfuffle, not for trans people. The previous article, on Will Smith’s sexist excuses for violence, can be read here. “Beware of trans affirmation therapy” is the latest article in Julie Bindel’s online column for The Critic, “The feminist fix”, which explores feminism’s answer to today’s challenges.
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