The Sunday Times is a conservative British publication.
In 2022, they published a letter to the editor by conservative and anti-trans activists who oppose medical consensus for trans youth healthcare. It was titled “Press pause on Conversion Therapy Bill.” The bill would make non-affirming models of care illegal.
Signatories
- Debbie Hayton, teacher and transgender advocate
- Dame Jenni Murray, broadcast journalist
- Rosie Duffield MP
- Maya Forstater, executive director, Sex Matters
- Baroness Fox of Buckley, director, Academy of Ideas
- Simon Fanshawe, author, broadcaster and diversity consultant
- James Esses, co-founder, Thoughtful Therapists
- Helen Joyce, director of advocacy, Sex Matters, and author of Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality
- Dr David Bell, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
- Neale Hanvey MP
- Sarah Vine QC
- Jess de Wahls, artist
- Professor Jo Phoenix, Reading University
Additional signers
- Shahrar Ali, former deputy leader, Green Party
- Allison Bailey, barrister
- David John Barnsdale, activist
- Jo Bartosch, journalist
- Bayswater Support Group
- Heather Binning, Women’s Rights Network
- Melanie Bulia, ‘Our Duty’
- Axa Carne
- Malcolm Clark, TV producer
- Jane Clarke, registered nurse
- William Clouston, Party Leader, Social Democratic Party
- Naomi Cunningham, Legal Feminist Collective, and Chair of Sex Matters
- Martin Daubney, Deputy Leader of the Reclaim Party
- Belinda de Lucy, commentator
- Paola Diana, entrepreneur
- Laura Dodsworth, writer
- Kathleen Dooley
- Simon Edge, novelist
- Martin Eggleston, parent
- Marcus Evans, psychoanalyst
- Susan Evans, psychoanalytic psychotherapist
- Jessica Fishburn, parent advocate
- Laurence Fox, Leader of the Reclaim Party
- Mary Garner, counsellor
- Dr Az Hakeem, consultant psychiatrist and medical psychotherapist
- Milli Hill, author
- Dr Zoe Hollowood, Chair, Liberal Voice for Women
- Jude Hunter, Genspect representative
- Alison Jenner, Vice Chair, Liberal Voice for Women
- Christina Jordan, former MEP
- Dennis Noel Kavanagh, legal commentator
- Aaron Kimberly, registered nurse
- Richard Kirker, human rights campaigner
- The Earl of Leicester
- Juliet Line, mother
- Graham Linehan, writer
- Claire Lonergan, parent
- Julia Mason, paediatrician
- Lucy Masoud, barrister
- Dr Julie Maxwell, community paediatrician
- Maggie Mellon, founding member, Evidence Based Social Work Alliance
- Harry Miller, ‘Fair Cop’
- Professor Michele Moore
- Baroness Morris of Yardley
- Cheryl Lavinia Mulholland, psychotherapist
- Dame Jenni Murray, broadcast journalist
- Simon Myerson QC
- Stella O’Malley, psychotherapist, and founder of Genspect
- Fionne Orlander
- Terry Patterson, psychodynamic counsellor
- Alexandra Phillips, GB News presenter
- Timothy Pitt-Payne QC
- Calvin Robinson, commentator
- Nigel Scott, secretary, Liberal Voice for Women
- Maggie Siviter, social worker, children’s safeguarding
- Dr Jacci Stoyle, former prison teacher
- Evelyn Strasburger, parent
- Lachlan Stuart, policy manager
- Anna Telford, parent
- Dr Val Thomas, psychotherapist, writer and co-founder of Critical Therapy Antidote
- Leonore Tiefer, retired NYS licensed clinical psychologist
- Gawain Towler, political consultant
- Lisa Townsend, Police and Crime Commissioner for Surrey
- Iris Walker, Councillor for Westhill and District
- Lord Wasserman
- Sinéad Watson, Genspect advisor
- James Wells, former MEP
- Robert Withers, Jungian psychoanalyst
- Miranda Yardley, accountant and human rights activist
- Susan Zamecnik, registered nurse
References
Signatories (April 10, 2022) Press pause on Conversion Therapy Bill. The Sunday Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/press-pause-on-conversion-therapy-bill-g7vbtvc7h