Debate contribution: Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill: Second Stage
Debate contribution by Mr Gordon Lyons on .
- MLA
- Mr Gordon Lyons
- Party at the time
- Democratic Unionist Party
- Date
- 22 September 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Private Members' Business
- Heading
- Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill: Second Stage
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5740708
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That is for the Deputy Speaker to decide. I have a number of queries for the Bill sponsor about definitions in the Bill. I want to know what he means by "coaching" and "instruction". There are a lot of definitions that I am unsure of. We have been told that we are not allowed to discuss wider gender identity, but a lot of those definitions fall into the same category. Are you saying that we cannot have a debate on the meaning of those definitions as well?
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