Northern Ireland

Alliance MLA Eóin Tennyson has introduced a Private Member’s Bill at Stormont to ban ‘conversion therapy’ in Northern Ireland.

The definitions in the Bill are so broad that prayer, pastoral support, preaching and parenting that do not affirm a person’s claimed gender identity or sexual lifestyle could be caught.

The public call for evidence on the proposals runs until Thursday 1 October.

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