LabourWomen’sDeclaration

"This bill risks moving us backwards from gains that have been so hard fought. Forstater, FWS, Cass Review. This bill puts them at risk, and it's why it's going to be such a tough fight"
@soniasodha uncovers the risks & harms in the Draft Conversion Practices Ban Bill
#LWDLiverpool26
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Good to see @jk_rowling has reposted this article by @kmckenna63 about the harms of the draft CP Bill:
"Many in the LGB community harbour profound fears that the sprawling & punitive nature of the bill would reinforce some of the conversion practices that it seeks to outlaw.
In particular, they point to the increasing tendency to encourage vulnerable young teenagers in the false & dangerous belief that they have been born in the wrong body & thus must either be transgender or non-binary.
It’s effectively seen by some gender ideologues as a new front in their efforts to undermine the 2025 Supreme Court judgment. As such, any young casualties are considered acceptable collateral damage"
archive.ph/2026.11.10-075…

🧵Three responses to Minister @simonlightwood's piece on the draft Conversion Practices Bill have now been published by @LabourList.
Here's @dsnorthnorth MP expressing the hope & expectation that the Joint Committee will hear from "parents’ groups, clinicians...religious leaders, & people who feel they were wrongly encouraged to identify as transgender & were ultimately harmed by it."
"Lightwood argues that the threshold for prosecution is high, but there are no thresholds in the Bill. This impinges Article 6 of the Convention on Human Rights"
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"Lord Macdonald said it appeared that this latest bill was being used as a “Trojan Horse”.
“I think there is a lobby pushing hard for this bill, which is the same lobby that wanted to argue in favour of self ID & the rights of trans women – biological males – to use women’s spaces...
The lobby that lost those arguments is now using this as a way to try to achieve some of what they wanted to achieve by the back door."
“If the minister can’t explain what it is that’s presently lawful that the bill is going to make unlawful, that that means there’s a serious problem with the bill, frankly”

We hope that our govt will give up claiming "Nothing to see here", and will now require the committee scrutinising the draft bill to fully address all the legitimate issues which @KenMacdonaldKC & so many of us are raising.`
telegraph.co.uk/gift/b7220a0e9…

"It has never made sense for T to be tacked on to LGB: one is about sexuality; the other is a homophobic & misogynistic movement which argues men who feel feminine are women, & women who feel butch are men. This is why this bill is so self-contradictory: it claims to be preventing conversion therapy, but the real conversion therapy is transgenderism"
thetimes.com/article/20cad6…