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Jayne Ozanne

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Jayne Ozanne is director of Ozanne Foundation and the founder of the Ban Conversion Therapy coalition, and an elected member of the General Synod

February 2023

  • Church of England same-sex partnerships<br>LGBT+ campaigners and their allies gather outside Lambeth Palace, south London, ahead of a reception for parliamentarians to demand an end to the discrimination against LGBT+ people in the Church of England. Plans to allow the blessing of same-sex civil marriages for the first time were outlined lastweek, but the position on gay marriage will not change and same-sex couples will still be unable to marry at church. Picture date: Monday January 23, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story RELIGION Marriage. Photo credit should read: Yui Mok/PA Wire

    double quotation markOne side of the C of E preaches LGBT+ acceptance, the other says I’m going to hell. This can’t go on

    Jayne Ozanne
    ‘Blessing’ LGBT+ people instead of allowing equal marriage is just the latest round of Church of England can-kicking, says Jayne Ozanne, an elected member of the General Synod

April 2022

  • Protest calling for reform of the Gender Recognition Act, London, 6 August 2021.

    double quotation markAs a lesbian woman, I was subjected to conversion practices. We must protect trans people against this abuse

    Jayne Ozanne
    Trans people are nearly twice as likely as lesbian and gay people to undergo interventions that range from prayers to corrective rape, says Jayne Ozanne, founder of the Ban Conversion Therapy coalition

November 2021

  • The Glasgow Pride march 4 September 2021.

    double quotation markThe UK must ban ‘conversion therapy’ – even for adults who claim to want it

    Jayne Ozanne
    In allowing over-18s to give ‘informed consent’ to this abusive practice, the government is pandering to rightwing evangelicals, says Jayne Ozanne of the Ban Conversion Therapy coalition

April 2021

  • Boris Johnson in Downing Street. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters.

    Politics Weekly UK
    ‘Stench of sleaze’ over Johnson’s government: Politics Weekly podcast

    Heather Stewart takes us through a busy week in UK politics, including Boris Johnson’s promise to drop a legislative bomb on UK football clubs and his promise to ‘fix’ a tax issue for James Dyson
    Podcast41:52

July 2020

  • London’s first ever Trans Pride march last September.

    double quotation markTrans people were promised change, but instead they face deepening prejudice

    Jayne Ozanne and Elli Tikvah Sarah
    As faith leaders, we deplore the government’s silence on reports it plans to scrap a reform of the Gender Recognition Act, say Jayne Ozanne of the Church of England’s General Synod and Rabbi Elli Tikvah Sarah
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