Ending conversion practices in Scotland: consultation analysis

Analysis of the responses to our consultation on proposals for legislative change to end conversion practices in Scotland.


Annex 2 – Organisations responding to the consultation

Campaign group, policy forum or think tank (n=10)

Amnesty International UK

Community Policy Forum

East & Southeast Asian Scotland

End Conversion Therapy Scotland

Parents Watch Education Glasgow

ScotPAG

Scottish Union for Education

Sex Matters

The Free Speech Union

Transgender Trend

Faith or belief body or group (n=84)

Associated Presbyterian Churches

Banchory Christian Fellowship Church

Baptist Union of Scotland

Bishops' Conference of Scotland

Bon Accord Free Church of Scotland

CARE for Scotland

Castletown & Community Free Church of Scotland

Christ Church Glasgow - Free Church of Scotland

Christian Concern

Church of God in Greenock

Church of Scotland

Concert of Prayer for Scotland

Covenant Church, Newmilns (Free Church of Scotland)

Cross Ness Church of Scotland

Crow Road Free Church of Scotland

Deeside Christian Fellowship Church

Edinburgh & Perth Presbytery of the Free Church of Scotland

Evangelical Alliance Scotland

Falkirk Free Church

Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches (FIEC)

Food for Thought, Motherwell

Forth Valley Methodist Circuit

Free Church of Scotland

Free Church of Scotland Presbytery of Skye and Wester Ross

Free Church Presbytery of Inverness Lochaber & Ross

Free North Church

Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland

Glasgow Chinese Christian Church

Glasgow City Church

Govanhill Free Church of Scotland

Grace Baptist Church Edinburgh

Grace Church Bothwell

Greenock Baptist Church

Greenview Church

Helensburgh and Lomond District MPP (Ministers/Pastors/Priests) Group

Hope Church Coatbridge Free Church of Scotland

Hope For Glasgow

Humanist Society Scotland

Ibrahim Masjid

Inverkeithing Baptist Church

Inverness CYC-YMCA

King's Church Edinburgh

Kirk Session of Dunblane Free Church (Free Church of Scotland)

Kirkcaldy Islamic Centre

Krik Session of Smithton Church, Inverness

Life Centre Livingston

Livingston Elim Pentecostal Church

Lochgilphead Free Church

Metropolitan Community Churches

Minhaj ul Quran Glasgow International

Muslim Council of Scotland

National Secular Society

New Prestwick Baptist Church

Newcraigs Evangelical Church, Kirkcaldy

Newton Mearns New Church

Northern Presbytery of the Free Church of Scotland

Path of Disciples

Plockton and Kyle Free Church

Prospecthill Christian Fellowship

RCCG Open Heavens Edinburgh

Faith or belief body or group (cont.)

Redeem Christian Church of God (Fountain of Love)

Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland

River of Life Church, Dumfries

Scottish Ahlul Bayt Society

Scottish Association of Muslim Families

Scottish Pagan Federation

South Lanarkshire Muslim Welfare Society

South Uist and Benbecula Free Church

Stornoway Free Church of Scotland

Stornoway Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland

The Anglo Catholic Church of Europe

The Apostolic Church in Scotland: Scottish Charity No. 037835

The Christian Institute

The Free Presbytery of Glasgow and Argyll (Free Church of Scotland)

The Kirk Session of Kiltarlity, Kirkhill and Beauly Free Church of Scotland

The Methodist Church

The Tron Church, Glasgow

Thurso & North Coast Free Church

Torry United Free Church of Scotland

United Free Church of Scotland Committee of Christian Life and Mission

ViZion church

Voice of the Voiceless

Western Isles Presbytery of the Free Church of Scotland

Woodfarm Education Centre

Family or parental support group (n=4)

Bayswater Support Group

Children of Transitioners

Glasgow City Parents Group

Transparentsees

LGB groups (n=3)

Scottish Lesbians

Gay Men's Network

LGB Alliance

LGBTQI+ groups (n=13)

Anent Transphobia

Equality Network

Glasgow Inclusive Cycle Club

LGBT Health and Wellbeing

LGBT Humanists

LGBT Youth Scotland

LGBT+ Network for Change

Pride in STEM

Proud Changemakers

Stonewall Scotland

The Gender Identity Research and Education Society (GIRES) - a registered charity

The Kite Trust

Trans Rights Youth Commission

Medical, psychology or counselling group or body (n=17)

American Academy of Medical Ethics

Association of Christians in Counselling and Linked Professions

Association of Clinical Psychologists UK (ACP-UK) Scotland Network

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

British Psychoanalytic Council

British Psychological Society (BPS)

Christian Medical Fellowship

COSCA (Counselling & Psychotherapy in Scotland)

General Medical Council

International Foundation for Therapeutic and Counselling Choice

Nursing and Midwifery Council

Psyrenity Psychology

Royal College of General Practitioners Scotland

Royal College of Nursing Scotland (RCN Scotland)

Royal College of Psychiatrists in Scotland

Scottish Council on Human Bioethics

UK Council for Psychotherapy

Political party or trade union (n=10)

Alba Party

ASLEF

Political party or trade union (cont.)

Christian Peoples Alliance

Labour Women's Declaration

Labour Women's Declaration Scotland

NASUWT

Perth & Kinross branch of Scottish greens

Scottish TUC

UNISON Scotland

University of Glasgow Branch of the Universities and College Union

Public body or local authority (n=2)

Equality and Human Rights Commission

Stirling Council

Social work, legal or community safety group or body (n=5)

Law Society of Scotland

Scottish Association of Social Work (SASW)

The Evidence Based Social Work Alliance (EBSWA)

The Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care

The Scottish Community Safety Network

Third sector (n=7)

CEMVO Scotland

Change Mental Health

Children in Scotland

Coin-Operated Press

Inclusion Scotland

Waverley Care

White Ribbon Scotland

Women’s groups (n=7)

Equality Watch Scotland

Fife Women's Aid

For Women Scotland

Hemat Gryffe Women's Aid

The Scottish Women's Convention

Transwidows.com

Women's Rights Network Scotland

Contact

Email: EndingConversionPractices@gov.scot

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