People should be free to seek help, including prayer, for unwanted same-sex attraction or gender dysphoria

Apr 7, 2022 by Jill

by Lynda Rose, Christian Today:

Led by Stonewall, LGBT groups have reportedly reacted with extreme anger to the government announcement that counselling for gender dysphoria will be exempted from the ban on so-called conversion therapy.

Indeed, the organisations are so enraged that they are now apparently boycotting the much hyped first ever global LGBT+ conference, ‘Safe To Be Me’, scheduled to take place this summer to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the first ever London Pride marches.

Planned under government direction by an 82-member LGBT+ Consortium headed by Stonewall, the groups issued a statement deploring the government’s U-turn, followed by an open letter – again composed by Stonewall – and saying they were pulling out of the event, unless and until transgender people receive similar protection from attempted conversion therapy. The conference has now been cancelled.

Given that only a few weeks ago the government issued guidance telling all their departments to withdraw from Stonewall’s controversial and mis-named ‘Diversity scheme’, the campaigning group’s current role in organising the ‘Safe To Be Me’ conference may occasion some surprise. Be that as it may, however, Stonewall is now leading the charge to assert LGBT parity and defend ‘transgender rights’.

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