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# Queen confirms conversion therapy ban
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/queen-confirms-conversion-therapy-ban/
- Published: 2021-05-13T06:41:35.000Z
- Updated: 2021-05-13T06:41:35.000Z
- Description: The Queen confirmed that LGBTQ+ conversion therapy will be banned in the UK.
- Author: Rachel Badham
- Tags: News, Politics, ban conversion therapy, Boris Johnson, conversion therapy, LGBTQ, Stonewall UK, UK

![](https://www.gscene.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/queens-speech-600-400.jpg)

During an address on **May 11**, the Queen confirmed that LGBTQ+ conversion therapy will be banned in the **UK**, following a parliamentary debate on the topic. During the long-awaited speech, she detailed government future plans, saying: *“Measures will be brought forward to address racial and ethnic disparities and ban conversion therapy.”* A public consolation regarding the issue will now be held.

LGBTQ+ activists are celebrating the news but also demanding an immediate end to the controversial practice, with **Mermaids** [tweeting](https://twitter.com/Mermaids%5FGender/status/1392072175927103488?ref=scenemag.co.uk): *“It has been confirmed in the Queen’s speech that so-called conversion therapy will be banned. This abuse must end. No more delays. No more consultations.”*

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/lgbtq-pride-rainbow-flag.jpg)

**Stonewall** seconded this, with **Nancy Kelley**, [saying](https://www.stonewall.org.uk/about-us/news/stonewall-statement-conversion-therapy-consultation?ref=scenemag.co.uk): *“We welcome the commitment to introduce legislation to ban so-called ‘conversion therapy. However, the news of a consultation is concerning and will be hard for our communities to hear. We don’t need a consultation to know that all practices that seek to convert, suppress, cure or change us are dangerous, abusive and must be banned.”*

**March 28** marked 1,000 days since the government first promised to ban LGBTQ+ conversion therapy, with **Boris Johnson** referring to the practice as *“abhorrent”.* A debate was held [earlier this year](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/mps-call-for-trans-conversion-therapy-ban/) but so far no official ban has been enacted.

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/end_conversion_therapy.jpg)