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‘Chilling’ report on conversion therapy calls for church leaders to be ‘re-educated’ or ‘defrocked’

‘Chilling’ report on conversion therapy calls for church leaders to be ‘re-educated’ or ‘defrocked’
Maya Forstater
ET staff writer
ET staff writer
12 October, 2022 2 min read

Campaigners say an advisory report sent to the Scottish government about banning so-called ‘conversion therapy’ is ‘chilling’.

The report says parents who try to discourage their children from changing sex could run the risk of having their children taken away by the state.

And it says groups that are critical of homosexual or transgender ideas should be barred from receiving public grants, hiring public venues, or having charitable status.

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