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“My parents very clearly do not love me”: Children of Bayswater Speak Out

"In July last year, we exposed Bayswater Support Group’s private Discord for The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, revealing evidence of child abuse and political lobbying. Bayswater describes itself as offering “parents whose children have a transgender identity somewhere to talk, share and be understood”. But posts from their private Discord forum revealed that parents exchanged conversion therapy tips, and fostered relationships with MPs to push anti-trans policies."

transsafety.network/posts/my-p

transsafety.network“My parents very clearly do not love me”: Children of Bayswater Speak OutWe speak to several children of Bayswater Support Group members. Their experiences highlight the harm groups like Bayswater do to young trans people, and the gateway they provide to broader far-right politics.

Amnesty: A Powerful and Coordinated Movement Against #HumanRights is Growing in the UK

Our ground breaking analysis has uncovered a rapidly expanding network of organisations working to undermine human rights protections, targeting reproductive freedoms, #LGBTQIA rights and promoting dangerous practices such as so-called "#ConversionTherapy"

amnesty.org.uk/anti-rights?utm

www.amnesty.org.ukA powerful anti-rights movement is growing in the UKA powerful anti-rights movement is growing in the UK, threatening to roll back our hard-won freedoms and rewrite the rules on whose rights, bodies and lives deserve protection. But - we refuse to be divided. @amnestyUK

A call for an EU ban on anti-LGBTQ 'conversion' gets 1 million signatures.

More than one million Europeans have called on the EU to ban "conversion"' practices targeting LGBTQ people, the results of a European Citizens' Initiative petition showed Friday.

mediafaro.org/article/20250517

France24 · A call for an EU ban on anti-LGBTQ 'conversion' gets 1 million signatures.By August Hakansson

I'm looking at the list of trending posts that my instance knows about — something I can see as a moderator.

The top two are about the European Citizens' Initiative on banning conversion therapy (which gained the necessary number of signatures a couple hours ago but is still gathering more to deal with any disputed signatures and to show overwhelming support). 🎉

And two more of the top ten also deal with the petition. Way to go Mastodon people!

@actuallyautistic As an American I am not eligible to sign this European petition to ban (anti)gay #ConversionTherapy — but if you are, please do! Autistics: please recall that the inventor of this criminal practice, Ivar Lovaas, is THE SAME PERSON who invented #ABA, the equally criminal scourge of our community. Also recall that autistics are much more likely to be #LGBTQ+ than are neurotypicals, and that gays are a lightning rod for prejudices of many kinds. Even if you personally are cishet (as I am), the enemies of #LGBTQ+ are your enemies too.

The petition is reportedly now within 20,000 votes of the 1,000,000 needed to require the European Commission to consider the ban, but voting ends in less than 48 hours. Please help this important proposal to make it over the top!

eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/