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Description: The Government’s plans to ban conversion therapy in certain scenarios contain “giant loopholes” and many LGBT people’s lives will remain at risk, critics have said. Legislation to ban conversion therapy that attempts to change someone’s sexual orientation in certain scenarios has been outlined in the Queen’s Speech, following a series of U-turns by the Government. The Conversion Therapy Bill will aim to stop “abhorrent practices which do not work and cause extensive harm” and protect people’s freedom to love who they want, the Government said. But due to the “complexity of issues and need for further careful thought”, the legislation will not protect transgender people. The Bill will also only ban conversion therapy for over-18s “who do not consent and who are coerced or forced to undergo” the practices. Reacting to the plans, former LGBT Government adviser Jayne Ozanne said it is an “utter disgrace” for trans people to be “purposefully omitted” from the ban, and that it creates a “loophole of consent”. The promise of legislation follows multiple changes in position and comes more than three years after the Conservative party pledged to eradicate conversion therapy. #talktv #TalkRadio