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UK equality watchdog suggests delaying trans conversion therapy ban in “deeply shocking” report

Activists are questioning whether or not the UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is “truly fit for purpose” after it suggested a “differentiated approach” to a trans conversion therapy ban. In a report published on 26 January in response to the UK government’s plans to legislate a conversion therapy ban, the human rights watchdog said the consultation does not “address the possible need to consider a differentiated approach in relation to sexual orientation and being transgender so as to ensure, in particular, that clinicians and therapists are not prohibited…

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‘Gay cake’ discrimination case thrown out by European Court of Human Rights

Gareth Lee has lost a seven-year legal battle over a bakery in Belfast refusing to make him a cake with “support gay marriage” written on it. On 6 January, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that Lee’s claim against the bakery was inadmissible. In 2016, a Belfast county court and a court of appeal both reached the outcome that Lee had been discriminated against by the bakery because of his sexual orientation. Two years later, however, the UK Supreme Court overturned the failed appeal by Ashers bakery –…

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