More Than 80 LGBTQ Groups Pull Out of U.K. Government Event
- Row over excluding trans people from conversion therapy ban
- Conference in June billed as U.K.’s first global LGBTQ event
Protesters hold signs during the demonstration against the use of conversion therapy outside a U.K. Cabinet office in London in June 2021.
Photographer: May James/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images
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More than 80 organizations pulled out of the U.K. government’s international LGBTQ conference due to be held in June after Boris Johnson dropped a plan to ban so-called conversion therapy for transgender people.
The government is wrong to “actively exclude” trans people from the ban, the LGBT+ Consortium, an umbrella body for groups in the U.K., said in a statement on its website on Monday. “We refuse to stand by and let this happen.”