The Government is proposing to create a new criminal offence for talking conversion therapies as part of a raft of measures to ban the coercive practice within months.
Proposals will protect LGBT people in England and Wales, including children, and ensure individuals found guilty of conversion therapy offences cannot profit from the practice, the Government Equalities Office (GEO) said.
But critics said the plans should have gone further and outlawed all conversion therapy. READ MORE: Angela Rayner publicly apologises for Tory 'scum' comments made at Labour Conference Ministers will legislate to ensure that, when existing violent offences are motivated by conversion therapy, this is considered as a potential aggravating factor when the
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