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# Quaker leaders demand conversion therapy ban
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/quaker-leaders-demand-conversion-therapy-ban/
- Published: 2021-10-15T12:13:34.000Z
- Updated: 2021-10-15T10:38:02.000Z
- Description: The LGBTQ+ group of Quakers in Britain has issued a statement on conversion therapy, describing the practice as “harmful” and “unethical”.
- Author: Rachel Badham
- Tags: Mental Health, News, Politics, Queer Corner, ban conversion therapy, Boris Johnson, LGBTQ, LGBTQ Conversion therapy, Nick Herbert

The official LGBTQ+ group of Quakers in Britain has issued a [statement](https://qgsdc.org.uk/news/qgsdc-public-statement-on-conversion-therapy/?ref=scenemag.co.uk) regarding conversion therapy, describing the practice as *“harmful”* and *“unethical”*, while demanding that the government move quickly to enact a national ban. The statement was released as part of the annual Quaker Gender and Sexual Diversity Community meeting, with leaders saying that *“diversity should be celebrated, not stamped out.”*

The statement sent a message of *“love and solidarity to all who have experienced conversion practices”*, and concluded: *“We, therefore, join with others, of many faiths and none, in calling upon the UK government to ban so-called conversion therapy without delay.”* Although the prospect of a ban on conversion therapy has been [under debate](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/mps-call-for-trans-conversion-therapy-ban/) in parliament, no such ban has yet been enforced, with March 28 2021 marking 1,000 days since the government first promised to eliminate the practice.

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/conversion-therapy3600.png)

[Earlier this month](https://www.gscene.com/news/national-news/government-promises-to-ban-conversion-therapy-in-2022/?ref=scenemag.co.uk), Nick Herbert – the UK government’s first-ever envoy on LGBTQ+ rights – confirmed that a national ban would be introduced in Spring 2022\. Responding to an advisory report on banning conversion therapy, Herbert said: *“I know the Government remains committed – as set out in the Queen’s speech – to bringing forward legislation next Spring to ensure that the abhorrent practice of conversion therapy will be banned.”*