Everyone should be protected from conversion therapy - it's a completely unacceptable practice. But, thinking about the legislation, the issue has been about intent, and if a therapist engages with a young person and they change their views about their gender identity during the course of that therapeutic relationship, then subsequently say it was because the therapist had an intent to change their gender identity, that puts the therapist in a difficult position. How can you legally determine intent?
The anxiety that you may be the test case is making clinicians even more anxious, potentially, about working in this area.
I guess the only thing I would say is that no credible professional body would support conversion therapy, so if any practitioner is deemed to be practising conversion therapy, it should, in the first instance, be a matter for their professional regulator before it would be a legislative issue.
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