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Key highlights of the proposal are:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Government launches consultation on how to make coercive conversion therapies illegal.<\/li>\n<li>Ensuring physical conversion therapy acts are sentenced appropriately and introducing a new offence for so-called talking conversion therapies<\/li>\n<li>Ensuring those found guilty of conversion therapy offences have any profit they obtained from those crimes removed, and strengthening the case for individuals to be disqualified from holding a senior role in a charity where they are convicted of a conversion therapy offence<\/li>\n<li>Introducing Conversion Therapy Protection Orders to protect potential victims from undergoing the practice, including abroad &#8211; this could include removing passports of potential victims, who are at risk of being taken overseas for conversion therapy<\/li>\n<li>Exploring further measures to prevent the promotion of conversion therapy<\/li>\n<li>Proposed new laws will protect LGBT people, and especially under 18s, ensuring individuals cannot promote or profit from this harmful practice.<\/li>\n<li>Government to fund support for victims of conversion therapy, including helpline.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is a 6-week consultation which will allow people to express their opinions on these proposals so as to work with the government to develop an effective ban.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tanvi Singh, Editorial Assistant has reported this brief.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Government has set out proposals to ban the practice of LGBT conversion therapy vide press release dated October 29, 2021. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67011,"featured_media":216730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[29785,19491,31215],"class_list":["post-256439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreign","category-legislationupdates","tag-law","tag-lgbt","tag-uk-government"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UK Government proposes ban on LGBT Conversion Therapy; 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