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The Campaign to Ban Conversion therapy in Scotland | GET INVOLVED:
https://linktr.ee/ectscotland
Unfortunately as the first election manifestos have been unveiled it has not been positive news for our campaign. After the Family Party - The Scottish Labour Party manifesto is clearly hostile to our existence in public life and society, with segregationist policy announced even to "everyday life"
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Our latest website update now lists every candidate running in the Scottish Parliamentary elections next month. Use our page to find your candidates. Get in touch with them and let them know you want them to back our pledges:
endconversiontherapy.scot#/holyrood26/...
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https://endconversiontherapy.scot/#/holyrood26/candidates
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One week into the campaign and we're starting to get more candidates coming forward to back our campaign. With 8 new candidates the statistics by party are: 6
@scottishgreens.org
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@snp.org
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@scotlibdems.org.uk
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Our first six signatories of our pledge for the Scottish Parliamentary elections 2026. Find our full request here:
endconversiontherapy.scot#/holyrood26/...
@alexstaniforth.bsky.social
@johnredpathsnp.bsky.social
@maggiechapman.bsky.social
@indymichaelg.bsky.social
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We will also be removing
@pinknews.bsky.social
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Senthorun S. Raj
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“That right protects gender identity and obliges Member States to provide for clear, accessible and effective procedures for the legal recognition of it…” This is a welcome decision. All trans people, regardless of where they live, should be able to transition without humiliating legal obstacles.
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Gender changes must be recognised across borders, EU top court rules | Euractiv
Countries cannot refuse to update civil status records if it hinders their right to live and move freely, the EU’s Court of Justice said
https://www.euractiv.com/news/gender-changes-must-be-recognised-across-borders-eu-top-court-rules/
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The Alchemist 🇨🇦
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I’m a survivor of conversion therapy. As a teenager, it nearly took my life and left deep wounds. I’m still healing. It's abuse and no one should have to go through it. We need to ban conversion therapy everywhere. I hold onto hope that one day it will be 💙
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Imani Gandy
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The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today. Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere. Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.
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This Trans Day of Visibility contact your Scottish Parliamentary candidates and ask them to sign our pledges. We can create world-leading protections for trans people in Scotland 🏳️⚧️
endconversiontherapy.scot#/holyrood26/...
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https://endconversiontherapy.scot/#/holyrood26/candidates
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Forcing people to suppress their gender identity is a form of conversion practice. Yet, despite Government plans to bring forward a ban on conversion practices, this is exactly what they plan to inflict on trans kids in schools. Make your voice heard, reject these regulations.
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Scottish Trans
14 days ago
Today is the final day to have your voice heard in a Scot Gov consultation on school's buildings regulations. Respond today & make sure the Govt understands what is needed to make sure that every single pupil can be safe, supported & included at school.
www.scottishtrans.org/protect-tran...
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Matt 🏴🏳️🌈🖖🏻
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Just used this site to email the
#SNP
candidate for my constituency about supporting this.
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Our candidate page has been updated again with a constituency filter, total pledge tracker, and manifesto tracker. Where we have emails available you can now email candidates directly to request their pledges:
endconversiontherapy.scot#/holyrood26/...
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https://endconversiontherapy.scot/#/holyrood26/candidates
16 days ago
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Equality Network
19 days ago
Scotland has been working on ending conversion practices since the End Conversion Therapy petition was passed to the Parliament’s Equalities and Human Rights Committee in 2020. In January 2022, with Joe FitzPatrick as convener, the committee made strong recommendations for how to do this right.
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Our initial candidate list is now live, with a list of every major party candidate and whether they have signed up to our pledges. Minor parties and candidate statements to follow, together with filtering tools and "email you candidate" functions.
endconversiontherapy.scot#/holyrood26/...
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https://endconversiontherapy.scot/#/holyrood26/candidates
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With the first candidate pledges coming in you can see our full request for candidates now live on our website:
endconversiontherapy.scot#/holyrood26/...
A searchable list of candidates and pledges is coming soon, together with party manifesto commitments.
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https://endconversiontherapy.scot/#/holyrood26/request
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Thank you to our long ally in parliament
@joefitzsnp.bsky.social
for using his last speech in parliament to secure this pledge from the First Minister. A conversion practices ban is ready to deliver in the first year of the next parliament.
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Our campaign has been featured in
@scotnational.bsky.social
today. Contact your candidates - this can be the year a ban on conversion practices is finally delivered.
www.thenational.scot/news/2596056...
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Holyrood candidates urged to back Scottish LGBT+ conversion therapy ban
HOLYROOD candidates have been urged to back a campaign to end LGBT+ conversion therapy in Scotland
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25960569.holyrood-candidates-urged-back-lgbt-conversion-therapy-ban/?fbclid=IwdGRleAQuRUFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeE1D_q3OK_mWGuK3NZCmjuEmwOiDwAsGAPbwViQvTQkaFEiWogAGY7lnNUig_aem_gouCzw6_aAu3Vz-CwI2q7w
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Sophie Molly
22 days ago
Please use the list below to email the candidates for the 2026 Scottish (Holyrood) Parliament Election. Ask them to sign
@endconversiontherapy.scot
's pledge to fully ban (trans inclusive) conversion therapy in Scotland.
whocanivotefor.co.uk/elections/sp...
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Scottish Parliament elections (Regions): The 47 candidates in Edinburgh and Lothians East
See all 47 candidates in the Scottish Parliament elections (Regions) on 7 May 2026: Craig Murray (Alliance to Liberate Scotland) Chris Cullen (Communist Party...
https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/elections/sp.r.edinburgh-and-lothians-east.2026-05-07/
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Heather Herbert gonna start painting her little toy soldiers
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If you want to contact the prospective members of the Scottish Parliament you can find them listed at.
whocanivotefor.co.uk
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We hope candidates across the political spectrum see this video - as to their voters as they decide who should lead Scotland's response to the failures to deliver a long awaited ban.
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Guy Ingerson
23 days ago
Happy to add my name to this. This is important legislation that must be progressed as soon as possible in the new term of Parliament.
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Want a deep dive into what conversion practices are today?
@theabigailthorn.bsky.social
has you covered.
youtu.be/_S5w18sjYLk?...
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Britain Still Has Conversion Therapists. Here’s Why.
YouTube video by Philosophy Tube
https://youtu.be/_S5w18sjYLk?si=_c8uIyb2imR71RhA
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Our first candidate pledge!
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Alex Staniforth
23 days ago
I‘m happy for you to add my name to this. Edinburgh and Lothians East List candidate for the Scottish Greens.
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Our Holyrood elections 2026 pledge will begin landing in candidate inboxes today. All responses (or lack of) will be recorded on our website. If you are a candidate you can also reach out to us directly with your pledge. You can find our full email here:
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Four and a half years ago two of our founders,
@blairanderson35.bsky.social
and
@tristangrayford.scot
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youtu.be/lfv4FgZsRMQ?...
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Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee - 7 September 2021
YouTube video by The Scottish Parliament
https://youtu.be/lfv4FgZsRMQ?si=0Bq7B8rqEP72QmZU
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We are preparing to contact all candidates for the Scottish Parliamentary election asking for their support for a ban on conversion practices. We believe it can be delivered within the first year of the new Parliament. Watch this space and help us make it happen.
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This evening we wrote to Scottish ministers after another attack on provision of trans haircare by the UK Government It is vital that the ScotGov now assumes no ban on conversion practices will come from the UK Government. We must provide a safe harbour in Scotland
#scottish
#scotland
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QueerAF
about 1 month ago
The historically pivotal court case you need to understand to fight for Trans+ rights, since the UK Supreme Court case 👇
www.wearequeeraf.com/the-historic...
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The historically pivotal court case, that is critical to the future UK Trans+ rights
Christine Goodwin v UK, changed the lives of Trans+ people across Europe, leading to the UK Gender Recognition Act. But it continues to be misunderstood
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/the-historically-pivotal-court-case-you-need-to-understand-to-fight-for-trans-rights-since-the-uk-supreme-court-case/
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This evening we wrote to Scottish ministers after another attack on provision of trans haircare by the UK Government It is vital that the ScotGov now assumes no ban on conversion practices will come from the UK Government. We must provide a safe harbour in Scotland
#scottish
#scotland
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With England now proceeding with institutionalised conversion therapy through government policy it is now indefensible for the Scottish Government not to proceed with its own ban independently. We must protect LGBTQ+ people here and provide a safe harbour.
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Robyn Kemp
about 1 month ago
Govt consultation on banning social media for under‑16s is live. The questions feel leading and a ban seems inevitable. As someone who grew up with LGBT info withheld from me under Thatcher, I think this will cut vulnerable teens off from support networks and information.
www.gov.uk/government/c...
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Growing up in the online world: a national consultation
We are consulting on further measures to prepare children for the future in an age of rapid technological change. This includes potential age restrictions on social media and other services such as ga...
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/growing-up-in-the-online-world-a-national-consultation
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Matthew Hodson
about 2 months ago
Two women face life-imprisonment for kissing under Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act, introduced in 2023, one of the harshest homophobic laws in the world.
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Two women arrested in Uganda for allegedly kissing in public could face life sentence
Wendy Faith and Alesi Diana Denise were taken into custody under laws that have outraged LGBTQ+ community and rights activists
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/feb/26/women-arrested-uganda-kissing-public-lgbtq-laws?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Sarah Clarke
about 2 months ago
We've been repeatedly promised a full ban on conversion practices in the UK by successive governments and yet we've seen more momentum behind banning youth from social media, a thing that conversion therapists have been actively advocating for.
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Mallory Moore
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The problem of conversion therapy is, as ever, not that conversion therapy doesn't work (although that's true) but that it constitutes an act of violence to suppress almost exclusively vulnerable people's core psychological development and that is devastating.
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This guidance is horrifying, and translates as the *expectation* that schools be permitted to force young trans people back into the closet in most circumstances. The expectation that doing so could successfully pressure them into no longer being trans into adulthood. Institutionalised conversion
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Many queer and trans young people rely on social media to find community and acceptance. Especially those whose communities and families may by hostile to their identities. Such as those being forced through the abuse that are conversion practices. Social media is a lifeline to them.
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Equality Network
2 months ago
How will this be remembered? This History Month, we’re asking you to get in touch with the Scottish Government to ask them how their actions now will be remembered in the years to come:
equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/howwillthisb...
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE
2 months ago
Actually we don't talk nearly enough about conversion "therapy" or how evil it is or the fact that many people who go through it never fully recover. So many people, even cishet allies, think it's just like ineffectual talk therapy and that misconception is so dangerous.
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Equality Network
2 months ago
We are thrilled to see that the Parliament of the Council of Europe (PACE) has voted in favour of a resolution calling for member states to ban conversion practices.
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This year we have a major opportunity to deliver a ban on conversion practices in Scotland. Don't let us be left behind by Europe. Vote for candidates who back a ban!
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Good Law Project
2 months ago
Sex Matters tried to block a ban on conversion practices, but the Council of Europe has voted to make it illegal
goodlawproject.org/council-of-e...
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Council of Europe votes for conversion therapy ban
Sex Matters tried to block a ban on conversion therapy, but the Council of Europe has voted to make it illegal
https://goodlawproject.org/council-of-europe-votes-for-ban-on-conversion-practices/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=transfund_post_22558&utm_medium=social_media&utm_content=29-01-2026
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Watch this space - We will soon be launching our campaign for candidates across the political spectrum to back our demand for an inclusive and comprehensive ban on Conversion Practices in Scotland. We are confident more will sign up this election than did so in 2021 - progress is coming.
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Dr Kevin Guyan
3 months ago
New research maps the campaign to erase trans people from UK data 🔢 This peer-reviewed article offers the first detailed account of how UK campaign groups have sought to define sex as strictly biological across the census, policing, healthcare and digital ID.
doi.org/10.1080/0958...
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Yesterday the Council of Europe Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination unanimously adopted a report from
@kateosbornemp.bsky.social
calling for an inclusive and comprehensive ban on conversion practices.
pace.coe.int/en/news/1013...
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Committee calls for ban on conversion practices
The Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination, meeting today in Paris, expressed concern that conversion practices persist across Council of Europe member states, often covertly.The report by Kate ...
https://pace.coe.int/en/news/10131/committee-calls-for-ban-on-conversion-practices
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Equality Network
4 months ago
Today, we launch our new three-year strategy. It lays out how we will move forward, work together to push back, sustain and protect what we have already achieved, and together move towards progressive and meaningful change. Read more:
www.equality-network.org/resources/ou...
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Trans children are being faced with a choice, one enforced by legal threats funded by a billionaire to bully the organisations that have included them for so long - get back into the closet or be cut off from society. No one wants this other than those consumed by hatred - backed by extreme wealth.
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Amnesty International UK
5 months ago
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Amnesty International UK
5 months ago
Twenty-two years ago today Section 28 was repealed. But we're seeing history repeat itself as some in the media and in politics spread bigotry and misinformation about trans people. 1/8🧵
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