A Conservative MP has worked with religious and ‘LGBTQ+ advocacy groups’ to produce a definition of ‘conversion therapy’ which puts prayer in the same category as the ‘corrective rape’ of an individual.
Alongside producing legislation that bans ‘forced therapy’, as the government has suggested it is keen to do, the proposals include a requirement to report any of the practices defined as ‘conversion therapy’.
MP Alicia Kearns notes, in an article promoting her work, that the practice ranges from ‘prayer sessions to … electroshocks … or even corrective rape’. Kearns says: ‘Any ban must include … attempts to prevent, against the individual’s wishes, a gender transition.’
