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# TikTok bans conversion therapy content
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/tiktok-bans-conversion-therapy-content/
- Published: 2020-10-23T09:10:32.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-22T14:42:30.000Z
- Description: Social media app TikTok has updated its UK guidelines to ban content which promotes LGBTQ+ conversion therapy, leading many to encourage prime minister Boris Johnson to speed up the ban of the practise.
- Author: Rachel Badham
- Tags: News, Politics, Queer Corner, ban conversion therapy, Boris Johnson, Glaad, Kemi Badenoch, LGBTQ, Stonewall, TikTok, UK News

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Social media app **TikTok** has updated its **UK** guidelines to ban content which promotes LGBTQ+ conversion therapy, leading many to encourage prime minister **Boris Johnson** to speed up the ban of the practise. According to [GLAAD](https://www.glaad.org/conversiontherapy?ref=scenemag.co.uk), conversion therapy is any kind of practise which attempts to alter a person’s sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression; it has been widely discredited and known to cause trauma in those subjected to it.

In a [statement](https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/tiktok-ban-lgbt-conversion-therapy-ban-uk?ref=scenemag.co.uk), a representative of TikTok said the aim was to *“remove content that is hurtful to the LGBTQ+ community by removing hateful ideas, including content that promotes conversion therapy and the idea that no one is born LGBTQ+.”* **Josh Bradlow**, policy manager at LGBTQ+ organisation **Stonewall**, said he was glad the app was ‘stepping up’ on the issue.

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People are urging Johnson to outlaw conversion therapy in the UK

The move has caused many to ask Johnson to ban conversion therapy in the UK after he [previously](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/johnson-urged-to-ban-conversion-therapy/) referred to the practise as ‘abhorrent’ but has failed to outlaw it. Equalities minister Kemi Badenoch insists the government is addressing the issue: “*Officials have been reviewing the current legislative framework to see how harmful and unacceptable practices referred to as conversion therapy may already be captured by existing laws and offences.”*

[![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/conversation600.jpg)](https://www.gscene.com/news/poland-bishops-demand-clinics-to-cure-lgbtq/attachment/conversation600/?ref=scenemag.co.uk)