Organisation Statements on Trans Matters
Collection of responses from medical bodies condeming the governments plans to not ban conversion therapy for trans people.
Many acts of conversion therapy amout to torture, inhuman or degrading tratment or punishment - violation of international and UK law.
Read More- https://www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/ban-on-conversion-therapy-must-extend-to-every-member-of-the-lgbtqplus-community-says-bma
- https://www.psychotherapy.org.uk/news/ukcp-statement-conversion-therapy-ban/
- https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/news-and-features/latest-news/detail/2022/04/01/government-should-reconsider-its-plans-to-not-ban-conversion-therapy-for-transgender-people
Added: 10 Apr, 2023Limited education and cultural taboos are among the main factors that preclude LGBTI persons from achieving social mobility and increase their vulnerability to violence.
Added: 10 Apr, 2023The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has adopted a report on the rise of hate against LGBTI people in Europe. The report, drafted by the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (CEN), calls on governments to take urgent action to combat hate crimes and discrimination against LGBTI people. Highlighting how the 'gender-critical' movement, along with a weak political response to such movements, has contributed to this escalation.
(52) [...] “We do not believe in self-identification”. Such rhetoric – which denies trans identities – is being used to roll back the rights of trans and non-binary people and is contributing to growing human rights problems.
[...] arguments defending freedom of expression have been – and are still being – used as a tool to justify transphobic rhetoric, further penalising and harming already marginalised trans people and communities.
The ‘gender-critical’ movement, which wrongly portrays trans rights as posing a particular threat to cisgender women and girls, has played a significant role in this process [...]
Trans healthcare is also being erroneously portrayed as a form of LGB conversion therapy.
Such anti-trans narratives, wrongly portraying trans rights as a threat to women and to others’ rights and insisting on binary categorisations of sex and gender [...]
Read More- https://assembly.coe.int/LifeRay/EGA/Pdf/TextesProvisoires/2021/20210921-RisingHateLGBTI-EN.pdf
- /post/organisations/2021/coe/20210921-RisingHateLGBTI-EN.pdf
Added: 11 Apr, 2023There is no evidence of ROGD and it forms part of a misinformation campaign that intends to stigmatise and limit access to evidence based care.
There are no sound empirical studies of ROGD and it has not been subjected to rigorous peer-review processes that are standard for clinical science. Further, there is no evidence that ROGD aligns with the lived experiences of transgender children and adolescents.
The proliferation of misinformation regarding ROGD is also infiltrating policy decisions.
Terms, such as ROGD, that further stigmatize and limit access to gender-affirming and evidence-based care violate the principles upon which CAAPS was founded and public trust in clinical science.
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Added: 11 Apr, 2023