The Conversion Practices Bill — our coverage
- Overview — where things stand, and where to start
- The Threshold — conversion practices and the draft Bill, explained, in four parts
- Done carefully enough, it is not a crime — the argument in full
- What we are asking Parliament to change — four recommendations, and the limits that come with them
- At the Joint Committee — our written evidence to Parliament (you are here)
CONVERSION PRACTICES BILL · JOINT COMMITTEE
The draft Conversion Practices Bill is being scrutinised by a Joint Committee of both Houses of Parliament before it is formally introduced. This is the stage at which a draft Bill is easiest to change. This page records what we file with the Committee, and what happens to it.
The Committee
The Joint Committee on the Draft Conversion Practices Bill was appointed to “consider and report on the Government’s draft Conversion Practices Bill”. Its membership was announced on 18 September 2026, and it is due to report by 22 January 2027. As of 11 October 2026 it had not opened a call for evidence.
Our written evidence
Status: Intending to submit · To: Joint Committee on the Draft Conversion Practices Bill
We have told the Committee that we intend to submit written evidence, and we will do so when its call for evidence opens. The evidence supports the Bill and makes four principal recommendations — an offence for children and adults lacking capacity, a defined safe harbour for health care, suppression named and defined, and likely harm alongside caused harm — with supporting changes, drafted amendments, an account of the evidence, a proportionality analysis for each extension of criminal liability, hard cases tested against the text, and the source for every factual and legal claim it makes.
The recommendations are summarised in plain terms on What we are asking Parliament to change, and the argument is set out in full in Done carefully enough, it is not a crime.
Why the evidence itself is not here yet. Evidence submitted to a parliamentary committee is the committee’s to publish first. We will link it here, on the parliamentary record, once the Committee has received and published it.
What comes next
Once the call for evidence opens, we will file and record the date here. The Committee may also hold oral evidence sessions. After it reports, the Government will respond and decide what changes to make before the Bill is formally introduced to Parliament. We will record each step on this page.
Eden Openly is an independent clinical health-education publication. It receives no funding from, and has no commercial relationship with, any provider of gender-related healthcare or any pharmaceutical company. The author is a transgender woman and declares her interests in full on our declared interests page; see also our statement of independence. Committee details checked against the Committee’s page on 11 October 2026. Corrections and queries: [email protected].
Changes to this page. 10 October 2026 — first published. 11 October 2026 — the description of our written evidence was rewritten to match the final structure of our draft: four principal recommendations (an offence for children and adults lacking capacity, a defined safe harbour for health care, suppression named and defined, and likely harm alongside caused harm), with supporting changes, drafted amendments and a proportionality analysis. The earlier description listed our proposals as they stood before that restructuring. The Committee’s status was re-checked the same day and is now given as at 11 October 2026.