Boris Johnson resigning as prime minister puts the future of the conversion therapy ban up in the air, according to Jayne Ozanne. A conversion therapy ban was first promised by then-prime minister Theresa May in 2018. After her departure from No 10, the can was kicked down the road several times. Johnson ‘s government eventually published a consultation on a ban in October 2021. But it later emerged, on 31 March, 2022, that the prime minister planned to ditch a legislative ban. After huge backlash, he performed one of the many U-turns that defined his time in office – but made clear his ban would only outlaw conversion therapy on the basis of sexual orientation, and not gender identity.