Ending conversion practices in Scotland - consultation analysis: SG response

Footnotes

1 We use the term conversion practices rather than ‘conversion therapy’ throughout this document to reflect the variety of forms that practices can take. This also recognises that conversion practices are not a legitimate form of ‘therapy’.

2 In a number of cases, respondents could have been placed in more than one group. Organisations were placed in the LGB group if their stated focus is on the protection of rights for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual people specifically. Those in the LGBTQI+ group tended to consider that legislation should apply equally to ending conversion practices associated with sexual orientation or gender identity. Respondents in the LGB group often considered that the proposals should not apply to those with trans identities.

3 United Nations, Human Rights Council: ‘Practices of so-called “conversion therapy”’: A/HRC/44/53 (un.org)

Conversion Therapy: An evidence assessment and qualitative study: Conversion Therapy Research Report (coventry.ac.uk)

International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims: It’s Torture Not Therapy Report 2020

Galop, LGBT+ Survivors’ Experiences of Conversion Practices, 2022: Galop-Conversion-Practices-Report-Jan-2023.pdf

4 Sexual Orientation Change Efforts, Adverse Childhood Experiences, and Suicide Ideation and Attempt Among Sexual Minority Adults, United States, 2016–2018 | AJPH | Vol. 110 Issue 7 (aphapublications.org)

5 A 2018 study entitled “Parent-Initiated Sexual Orientation Change Efforts With LGBT Adolescents: Implications for Young Adult Mental Health and Adjustment” found that: “parent/caregiver efforts to change an adolescent’s sexual orientation are associated with multiple indicators of poor health and adjustment in young adulthood. The negative associations were markedly stronger for participants who experienced both parental attempts to change their sexual orientation, coupled with efforts to send the adolescent to a therapist or religious leader to change their sexual orientation (strategies often called “conversion” or “reparative” therapy).”

United Nations, Human Rights Council: ‘Practices of so-called “conversion therapy” A/HRC/44/53 (un.org)

6 Percentage relates to Question 3 of the consultation. A full breakdown of responses can be found on page 20 of the analysis report.

7 This percentage relates to Question 11 of the consultation. A full breakdown of responses can be found on page 46 of the full analysis report.