Maria Caulfield CBE

🚨 CHILDREN COULD BE PROSECUTED UNDER THE CONVERSION PRACTICES BILL 🚨 The Government’s draft Conversion Practices Bill would hand malicious and authoritarian trans activists a ready-made tool to force you to go along with gender ideology. A new Policy Exchange report by Akua Reindorf KC and Baroness Falkner, former chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, warns that even children could face criminal prosecution for comments or questions about a classmate’s gender identity. The report also highlights the draft Bill’s definition of a transgender identity, which covers a person who “identifies as neither male nor female or as not solely male or female”. This plainly extends to non-binary identities: a concept UK law does not recognise, and one at odds with the Supreme Court’s 2025 ruling that “sex” in the Equality Act 2010 means biological sex. The authors warn that the definition is so broad it could encompass “hundreds of alternative gender identity labels”, including “catgender”: “It is not an overstatement to say that, under the draft Bill, a person may face imprisonment for trying to persuade another that they are not, in fact, a cat.” Read more below, sign the petition below to stop the Bill and write to the committee's call for evidence👇