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UK Bans Transgender Females From Participating In Women’s Sport

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UK Bans Transgender Females From Participating In Women’s Sport

Boris Johnson, the UK Prime Minister, has chimed in on the transgender rights debate, arguing that biological males should not be permitted to compete in female-only sports competitions.

As transgender rights organizations keep spreading their beliefs throughout the Western world, the UK leader stated that parents should have “at the very least” “involvement” in their children’s choices to change their gender.

UK Bans Transgender Females From Participating In Women's Sport.

Johnson’s remarks come as the administration is facing criticism for exempting transgender persons from a conversion therapy prohibition.

Conversion therapy is a pseudoscientific technique that involves utilizing psychological, physical, or spiritual therapies to try to change a person’s sexual orientation from homosexual or bisexual to heterosexual or their gender identification from transgender to cisgender.

Following the withdrawal of more than 100 charities, the UK canceled an LGBT+ conference, intended to challenge a promised prohibition on all conversion therapy.

Boris Johnson said there are still things to work out during a visit to a hospital in Welwyn Garden City on Wednesday, April 6, and said he was ‘sad’ at the response of the organizations concerned.

He said, “I don’t think that it’s reasonable for kids to be deemed so-called Gillick-competent to take decisions about their gender or irreversible treatments that they may have. I think there should be parental involvement at the very least.

“I don’t think that biological men should be competing in female sporting events.”

Despite opposition from some of his own MPs, he defended the choice to exempt transgender persons from the conversion therapy ban.

He said, “We will have a ban on gay conversion therapy, which to me is utterly abhorrent.

“But there are complexities and sensitivities when you move from the area of sexuality to the question of gender. There, I’m afraid, there are things that I think still need to be worked out.”

Women should have ‘specific’ facilities in hospitals, jails, and changing rooms, according to the PM.

He said, “That’s as far as my thinking has developed on this issue. If that puts me in conflict with some others, then we have got to work it all out.

“That doesn’t mean that I’m not immensely sympathetic to people who want to change gender, to transition.

“It’s vital that we give people the maximum possible love and support in making those decisions.

“But these are complex issues and I don’t think they can be solved with one swift, easy piece of legislation. It takes a lot of thought to get this right.”

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