This article was originally published in December 2021, while the UK government was consulting on plans to ban 'conversion therapy' in England and Wales, as it had first pledged to do in 2018.
In it, advocates told us about the devastating consequences of the so-called 'treatment' and outlined concerns about possible loopholes in the legislation being drawn up.
In the wake of reports about the government's partial U-turn on outlawing the practice on 31 March 2022, we are republishing it below.
