Here is how the Coventry University study defines conversion therapy...
They compare it with their preferred approach "unconditional acceptance"
Exploring whether a child's dysphoria is a symptom of a development disorder.
Exploring whether "asexuality" has another cause.
= Conversion therapy according to this study
Here is a case example they give from their interviews
And here is one of the very few a academic studies they cite as evidence on the nature of gender identity conversion. They say @ZUCKERKJ is a conversion therapist
Let's look at what the government's consultation on conversion therapy is asking people who say they've had it.
They are certainly not ruling out therapists and other clinicians
Let's look at what JK Rowling has been harassed and condemned for
Let's look at what @JamesEsses was expelled from therapist training for ...
And let's look at what Naomi Cunningham said at the Middle Temple which caused Jayne Ozanne to call her a transphobe and apologise to the trans community that she had been allowed to speak legalfeminist.org.uk/2021/11/17/con…
If @Nancy_M_K wants people to believe that the policy she is campaigning for doesn't target legitimate therapy, why didn't she speak up when she could have defended Ken Zucker, James Esses, Naomi Cunningham,David Bell, Keira Bell, Sonia Appleby, JK Rowling etc...
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I have seen quite a lot of this question going around.
Its called the "transman gotcha" and it is addressed in the Supreme Court judgment.
It goes like this: If you exclude "trans women" from women's spaces then you must include burly, bearded "trans men"
The answer in the judgment is that the Equality Act exceptions mean that both sex discrimination and gender reassignment discrimination prohibitions are disapplied so a service provider can lawfully exclude both ways.
There will be much talk of the single-sex exceptions in the Equality Act over the next few days.
These are the exceptions that allow service providers to offer services that are only open to one sex or the other (found at Schedule 3 Part 7 of the Act). (1/7)
Without these provisions service providers would be committing sex discrimination by excluding men or women.
Service providers don’t need to “use these exceptions” to exclude people, they just provide the service in the normal way. If they were to get sued they (or a lawyer) can point to the exceptions to show the service is lawful. (2/7)
The exceptions disapply both the prohibitions against sex discrimination and gender reassignment discrimination.
Again service providers don’t have to “use the exceptions” to exclude someone based on a particular protected characteristic. (3/7)
The CEO of @AdvanceHE has written to university vice chancellors acknowledging that "certain policy statements" cited in the @officestudents decision on @SussexUni "originated in part from" their template.
The parts in yellow came word-for-word from the Equality Challenge Unit/ Advance HE template....
i.e. almost all of it.
... this policy was influential and contributed to the culture of declaring everything "transphobia" and of hounding and not protecting those accused of it.
The ONS have new guidance out on their gender identity data from the census....
They say that you can take it from them with "high confidence" that around 1 in 200 people have a "gender identity different from their sex at birth" 🤨
So who is "Mr X" the trans identifying man held in high security male prison after multiple convictions for luring boys into sex acts while pretending to be a teenage girl on social media?
Could it be former children’s holiday camp manager Cameron Osman who engaged more than 70 teenage boys in sexualised chat pretending to be a 16-year-old girl “Lizzie lemon”.