UK moves to criminalise gender and sexuality conversion therapies https://t.co/GMOKvEorCx
— The Straits Times (@straits_times) June 25, 2026
LONDON, June 25 – Britain on Thursday set out plans to criminalise abusive and harmful therapies intended to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity.
• Government publishes draft Conversion Practices Bill for England and Wales, banning so-called ‘conversion therapies’.
• Offenders carrying out such practices could face an unlimited fine and/or up to five years in prison.