He told Sky News that conversion therapy would be banned for LGB people, but the government believed there should be a “much more sensitive approach to transgender people”. He said: “As far as conversion therapy is concerned, it is absolutely right, as the government has said, that we ban so-called conversion therapy for LGB people. “When it comes to trans, I think we have to be more careful. You asked me again as Minister of Health, in my mind is, for example, the recent report by Dr Hilary Cass, one of the most experienced pediatricians in this country, who just published an interim report a few weeks ago and talked about how When children and young people say they have gender discomfort it is right for specialist doctors to be able to challenge it and determine what the cause may be. “It’s a real case of gender identity discomfort or it could be that this person is suffering from some kind of child sexual abuse for example or it may be related to bullying. “Therefore, I think it is right to take the approach we have, which is to ban conversion therapy for LGB, but to take a much more sensitive approach to trans people.”
