Thread by @HartlandJoseph

✨✨Announcement✨✨

Welcome Leeds @LeedsMedHealth and Aberdeen @AbdnLifeScience to the @GLADDUK UK Medical Schools Charter on So-Called LGBTQ+ Conversion Therapy

This completes Scotland, leaving us with 1 university in N. Ireland and 8 in England to go out of 44!

Let's revisit where we are now. The following schools have made a commitment to the 6 principles of the charter:
✨ Aberdeen @AbdnLifeScience
✨ Aston @AstonMedicine
✨ Birmingham @UoBMBChB @unibirm_MDS
✨ Brighton and Sussex @BSMSMedSchool
✨ Bristol @MedicalBristol

✨ Brunel @BrunelMedSchool
✨ Cardiff @CUmedicengage
✨ Dundee @UoDMedicine
✨ Edinburgh @EdinUniMedicine
✨ Exeter @ExeterMed
✨ Glasgow @UofGMedicine
✨ Hull York @HullYorkMed
✨ Keele @KeeleMedSchool
✨ Kent and Medway @KMMSmedschool
✨ Kings College London @kingsmedicine

✨ Lancaster @LancasterMedSch
✨ Leeds @LeedsMedHealth
✨ Leicester @LeMedSchool
✨ Liverpool @LivUniMedicine
✨ Manchester @Medicine_UoM
✨ Newcastle @NewcastleMedSch
✨ Norwich @UeaMed
✨ Nottingham @MedicineUoN
✨ Lincoln @MedLincoln

✨ Peninsula (Plymouth) @PlymUniMedicine
✨ Queens Belfast @QUBMedEd
✨ Sheffield @sheffunimdh
✨ Southampton @UoS_Medicine
✨ St Andrews @StAndMedicine
✨ St George's @StGeorgesUni
✨ Sunderland @UOSMedicine
✨ Swansea @SwanseaMedicine
✨ UCLAN @UCLanMedicine
✨ UCL @UCLMS

✨ Warwick @warwickmed

To keep up to date with this list you can view the whole of the charter here at the
@GLADDUK website

gladd.co.uk/activism-conve…

Ok, so what does that all mean?

Endorsed by the @BMAstudents @TheBMA @asmeofficial and @drmbrady signing demonstrates commitment by the school to their staff & students that there must be an inclusive ban of So-Called Conversion Therapy #banconversiontherapy

Staff and students can now use this charter to campaign for better LGBTQ+ teaching, and hold schools to account when they fall short of the bar they have set.

In addition, these schools join us in urging the
@gmcuk to better recognise the harms of so-called conversion therapy

As stated by @ukmedschools, supported by UN and Gov reports, there is no credible base to support these practices, they have no place in clinical practice, & teaching must be developed that is authentic & inclusive of LGBTQ+ people, highlighting the harms of ‘conversion therapy’

Contrary to press and attacks on the Charter, this is no way detracts from those experiencing distress due to their gender and/or sexuality. It does not limit genuine evidence-based treatment options. However, therapy cannot begin with an agenda to cure LGBTQ+ people.

We are hugely 💞 grateful 💞 to the staff and students who have championed this work.

However there is still some way to go...

We will not stop until all medical schools support this work, and we see action from our governing bodies that regulate medical education in the UK

✨Every✨ med school has been invited & ✨every✨ school should sign

If your school isnt here then we need your help. RT, write letters, sign petitions…your voices matter.

So-Called LGBTQ+ Conversion Therapy is abuse.

We do not need a cure.

There must be an inclusive ban.