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Tories attacking trans rights to court transphobic voters, says ex-adviser

Boris Johnson’s U-turn over protecting trans people in the conversion therapy ban is an attempt to appeal to Tory heartlands, says Jayne Ozanne

By Adam Bychawski
Tories attacking trans rights to court transphobic voters, says ex-adviser
Hundreds protested the government's U-turn on conversion therapy in Whitehall on 10 April
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Boris Johnson is attacking transgender people because he believes it appeals to Tory voters, a former LGBTQ government adviser has claimed.

The government has been condemned by LGBTQ rights groups for excluding transgender people from its ban on so-called conversion therapy.

Speaking to openDemocracy, Jayne Ozanne – a conversion therapy survivor and chair of the #BanConversionTherapy coalition – accused the government of making decisions on LGBTQ policy by what it believes appeals to its base.

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