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🚨🚨 HAVE YOUR SAY ON THE DRAFT CONVERSION PRACTICES BILL
If your child tells you they’re non-binary and you explain why you don’t believe that’s a real thing, should it be a police matter?
The Draft Conversion Practices Bill would create new criminal offences around what it calls conversion practices. Its wording is so broad that it could capture ordinary conversations between parents and children, pastoral care and careful, exploratory therapy. Those found guilty could face up to five years in prison.
The Bill threatens free speech, religious freedom, women’s rights and single-sex spaces. It also threatens gender non-conforming children, who need to hear from parents acting in their best interests. Above all, it threatens your right to a private family life, free from state interference in how you parent.
A Joint Committee of Parliament is accepting written evidence until 5 pm on Monday 16 November 2026 — one week from today. Anyone can respond.
The Free Speech Union has built a tool to help you write your own response to the Committee in just a few minutes, or add your name to the petition 👇
Angela Rayner appointed five people to a Working Group tasked with drafting the “anti-Muslim hostility” definition. All five had troubling links to Islamist organisations, including the Muslim Council of Britain and MEND. Successive governments have followed a policy of non-engagement with these groups since 2009 because of concerns about their extremism.
The Free Speech Union and Shadow Justice Secretary @NJ_Timothy asked the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, through a Freedom of Information request, who had been able to submit evidence to the consultation. The department initially said it had deleted all the responses — apparently contrary to the Government’s own data policy.
After @SpeechUnion threatened legal action unless the department disclosed who had been consulted, an internal investigation was launched. The ministry’s most senior civil servant then confirmed that the responses were still held on its data system, but refused to reveal the names.
This is not normal behaviour. We smell a rat.
We have repeatedly asked whether Islamist groups had the opportunity to influence the process that produced what we regard as a de facto Islamic blasphemy law. The department’s handling of the consultation has only deepened our concerns.
Now @AngelaRayner is set to appoint an “anti-Muslim hostility” tsar. Given her track record, we are horrified by who she might choose.
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There is so much wrong with this. It’s as if marching towards yet another medical academy is totally inevitable! Yet no one in authority will put the brakes on. Remember this in years to come..
The Conversion Practices Bill committee has not accepted the offers of detransitioners and parents to give oral evidence.
@HJoyceGender: “The committee must listen carefully to these vulnerable victims of a major medical scandal, who know better than anyone the dangers of gender affirmation.”
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/11…
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🇬🇧 The draft Conversion Practices Bill 'violates the rule of law', says former chief prosecutor Lord Macdonald. He warned that parents will fear they risk prison for honest conversations with their childrens.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/11…
📣🚨 Sex, Lies and Statistics — debate & book launch with Professor Alice Sullivan.
12 November, in-person in central London, free livestream for FSU members.
Professor Alice Sullivan has faced violent protests, blacklisting and no-platforming for questioning new orthodoxies that undermine data collection in the name of trans ‘inclusivity’.
Join Alice as she debates the issues raised in her new book, ‘Sex, Lies and Statistics’, with policy experts Professor Catherine Meads, Professor Michael Biggs and Professor Ian Acheson. Join the live audience Q&A to discuss what can be done to restore open inquiry and reasoned debate, followed by a friendly social.
Tickets below and check FSU member newsletter for free livestream link 👇
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"Lord Macdonald said it appeared that this latest bill was being used as a “Trojan Horse”.
“I think there is a lobby pushing hard for this bill, which is the same lobby that wanted to argue in favour of self ID & the rights of trans women – biological males – to use women’s spaces...
The lobby that lost those arguments is now using this as a way to try to achieve some of what they wanted to achieve by the back door."
“If the minister can’t explain what it is that’s presently lawful that the bill is going to make unlawful, that that means there’s a serious problem with the bill, frankly”
We hope that our govt will give up claiming "Nothing to see here", and will now require the committee scrutinising the draft bill to fully address all the legitimate issues which @KenMacdonaldKC & so many of us are raising.`
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The Alliance Party is being urged to drop its controversial bill to ban conversion practices after a public consultation found overwhelming opposition.
Stormont officials have revealed that just 6.5 per cent of responses to the consultation on the proposed legislation were in favour.
The DUP says this “overwhelming opposition” cannot be ignored. It also says the figures raise further questions about how widespread these so-called practices actually are in Northern Ireland.
DUP MLA Pam Cameron said the Committee for Communities’ consultation showed overwhelming opposition to the Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill, with more than nine in ten respondents rejecting it.
Mrs Cameron said: “These figures are stark. Over 1,300 people and organisations took the time to respond, and more than nine out of ten said no. That’s not a narrow split. It’s overwhelming opposition, and the Committee can’t ignore it.
“The DUP has been clear from the outset that this Bill is the wrong approach, and the people who responded are firmly with us. No one is defending abusive or coercive practices. They’re wrong, and where they cause harm the law should deal with them. But that’s not what this Bill does.
“This bill will criminalise parents having important conversations with their children, will divide families and hurt the very people it claims it seeks to protect.”
Read more below 👇
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Trans bill violates rule of law, says former chief prosecutor
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Do you think it is fair that parents, therapists and religious leaders could face up to five years in prison for having well-intentioned conversations with gender-confused children — or for sharing their faith’s teachings with their congregations?
At the Free Speech Union, we certainly don’t. It’s madness.
Yet that is what this Government is proposing.
Under its draft legislation to ban conversion practices, parents could be criminalised for discouraging their gender-confused children from embarking on dangerous, life-changing and irreversible medical pathways.
It is a blatant attack on free speech and religious freedom.
Andy Burnham has already sacked the minister who introduced the bill. It is now time for him to ditch the legislation too.
✍️ Sign the FSU’s petition below 👇
Free speech and football are two pillars of British culture.
Aston Villa’s threat of legal action against Jamie Carragher over his “unacceptable insult to the club and its fans” is a threat to free speech, writes Simon Briggs.
Football is a partisan, impassioned game. Everyone has an opinion and should be free to share it.
It’s concerning to see a growing trend of football club owners lashing out at criticism. Last year, Lord Alan Sugar threatened legal action against Jamie Redknapp after he suggested Sugar had left Spurs in a “mess” when he departed as chairman.
Read more in @Telegraph 👇
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"Parents refusing to buy their daughter a breast binder. A therapist asking why a teenage boy is so certain he is a girl that he’s started buying untested hormones over the dark web. A wife expressing astonishment that her husband of 20 years claims to be a woman. These would all be criminalised by the bill..." @HadleyFreeman in @thetimes on @UKLabour's woeful #ConversionPracticesDraftBill.
thetimes.com/article/20cad62…
The verdict and sentence in Russell Brand’s case are a victory for free speech and a reminder of the importance of jury trials.
Brand has been sentenced to ten and a half years in prison after being convicted of rape and sexual assault.
The Times writes: “After the verdict, Brand’s defence counsel, Ian Winter KC, launched a vituperative attack on Rosamund Urwin, this newspaper’s chief news correspondent, absurdly and arrogantly suggesting she had wrecked Brand’s chance of achieving justice. He will now be held to account by the barristers’ watchdog after reporting himself to the Bar Standards Board.”
The case demonstrates the importance of jury trials in our criminal justice system — and is another reminder of how sinister the Government’s plans to curtail the right to trial by jury are.
It also highlights the value of investigative journalism in holding powerful and famous people to account, especially when they seek to deter scrutiny with the threat of costly legal action.
And it reminds us how important it is that women who have been sexually assaulted can speak freely about their experiences.
The rich and powerful must be held accountable for their crimes.
Read more below in @thetimes 👇
Elected representatives should never be silenced by unelected officials when speaking up for their constituents, especially about safeguarding concerns.
Councillor Michael Fife-Cook was punished for raising concerns about deeply sexualised material, including sex toys, displayed next to a children’s colouring area at Exeter Library.
Devon County Council told him he had breached its Code of Conduct, ordered him to apologise to the officers he had criticised and required him to undergo training.
How is that right? Across the country, councillors are being silenced by unelected officials. The Free Speech Union has been at the forefront of the fight to defend their right to speak up.
Elected councillors should be free to raise safeguarding concerns, challenge council officers and hold public authorities to account without facing disciplinary action for expressing an unwelcome opinion.
With the Free Speech Union’s backing, Cllr Fife-Cook is now challenging the Council’s decision.
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