Tue May 10, 2022 – 10:57 am EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been a mixed bag. As I reported in a column last month, Johnson has waffled back and forth on a range of LGBT issues, vacillating between concerns with gender ideology held by medical professionals, psychiatrists, judges, and many of his own MPs. It was initially reported that his concerns were enough for the Tories to drop the planned so-called “conversion therapy” ban entirely—but Johnson hastily reversed course and promised to pass the law under protest from LGBT activists and figures like former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams.
But this came with one caveat: Johnson stated that a new iteration of the bill would not cover gender dysphoria. LGBT groups, predictably, were outraged, and many wondered if Johnson would cave again. Today’s Queen’s Speech has confirmed that he did not, and that gender dysphoria will not be covered under the conversion therapy ban. According to The Independent, the ban “will cover all attempts to induce children to switch their sexual orientation, but will apply to over-18s only if they do not consent to the process or are forced or coerced
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