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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The phrase “gender identity” appears 36 times in the judgment
Leonardo’s policy is that any member of staff who is proposing to to undergo, is undergoing or has undergone a process for the purposes of reassigning their gender can use the toilets intended for the opposite sex.
I am hugely grateful to Naomi Cunningham for the work that she has done as the first chair of Sex Matters, and for her equally important role as a barrister representing claimants using the law to fight for justice.
The arguments made on behalf of the Women and Equalities Minister yesterday were a desperate attempt to shoehorn "case-by-case" back into the single sex services following the Supreme Court judgment.
At paragraph 36 she says there are there are no equivalent exceptions to the single sex service exceptions that apply to employers.
She seems to have forgotten the provisions about protection of women in Schedule 22!
She said that the FWS case was principally decided by reference to maternity rights.
It wasn't. The SC concluded "it important that the EA is interpreted in a clear & consistent way so that groups which share a PC can be identified by those on whom the Act imposes obligations so that they can perform those obligations in a practical way"
Ollie was Chair of the Civil Service Rainbow Alliance for 9 years from 2008 -2017, then held a number of roles in the GEO.
So all the time that the government was getting the law wrong and getting Stonewall prizes for he was leading this.
In 2012 he wrote in Civil Service World about his personal opinion that the government shouldn't renege on its commitment to this particular approach to diversity.
Peter Wilkins case exposes another public body (this one part of @DefenceHQ) that lost sight of the Equality Act and of civil service principles of impartiality and objectivity.
One colleague accused him of making a "threatening" FOI request when he tried to draw attention to @dstlmod 's Line Manager’s Guide.
The FOI was turned down but I tried again.
At first DSTL said they couldn't find the document.
I said "have another look, its on your intranet" and they located it.
Then they thought long and hard about whether they could withhold it on security grounds.