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Core Issues Trust Attends GAFCON 2023 in Kigali
Core Issues Trust is excited to announce its participation as a Gold Partner at the fourth Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) held in Kigali, Rwanda, from April 17th to 21st, 2023. The event...
CIT Trustee Faces Criminal Charges for Christian Testimony
CIT Trustee Faces Criminal Charges for Christian Testimony Malta resident and Core Issues Trust trustee, Matthew Grech, is to face court proceedings following an interview in which he shared about...
Extract from the submission to the UK Government’s Consultation on Conversion Therapy
How we have responded to the Government’s Consultation on ‘conversion therapy’
Download a pdf document of this article here On Friday 4th of February the Consultation on 'conversion therapy' ended. Core Issues Trust, X-Out-Loud and the International Federation for...
Statement to the Media: X-Out-Loud
Statement to the Media 27th October 2021 Download the full statement In anticipation of the UK Government’s Consultation on “Conversion Therapy”, X-Out-Loud has delivered copies of 44 personal...
Submission to the Scottish Government’s Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee consultation on PE1817: “End Conversion Therapy”
Statement to the Sunday Mirror and Sunday People Newspapers
The Sunday Mirror, and Sunday People have notified Core Issues Trust that they are to publish this weekend (Sunday 16 May 2021) an article intended to incriminate the Trust following the undercover...
Statement to Members of Local Assembly, Stormont from CIT and the IFTCC
Stormont debate on banning “conversion Therapy” – a statement from Core Issues Trust (CIT) and the International Federation for Therapeutic and Counselling Choice (IFTCC) Download the Statement...
X-Out-Loud responds to Politicians and Activists in Stormont
Opportunity to listen to those we support on their journey out of unwanted LGBT identities. Thursday 6th May at 6.30 PM Facebook LIVE[1] and also on X-Out-Loud YouTube[2]. You're invited to watch a...
Statement on the Ban Conversion Therapy in Northern Ireland Coalition
Core Issues Trust urges the Stormont Assembly to recognise the flawed, and controversial basis of this motion and to consider the rights and freedoms of the former LGBT minority it targets. The motion is a fundamental denial of basic freedoms of speech, belief, conscience and association for all persons in Northern Ireland. An assembly that supports such a motion has lost sight of the people it serves.
IFTCC on ‘Conversion Therapy and You’
The IFTCC has announced a series of 6 episodes examining therapy bans in a range of countries. The series is led by Dr Mike Davidson (UK) and Dr Laura Haynes (US) and features participants from various countries across the world. Series 1 begins Thursday 15th April 2021 at 7.00 pm or 8.00 pm CEST
Therapy bans and the claimed ‘hostile environment’
A Joint Statement from Core Issues Trust and The International Federation for Therapeutic and Counselling Choice. We live in a world of diverse ideologies and cultural practices. Banning and criminalising will not eliminate poor therapy. We call on the Government to ensure that in future its LGBT advisors are representative of different ideological, religious, non-religious and cultural perspectives rather than becoming a monoculture that leads to dogma and viewpoint discrimination.
IFTCC Submission to the United Nations 11th March, 2021
Response to call for input to a thematic report: gender, sexual orientation and gender identity From The International Federation for Therapeutic and Counselling Choice (IFTCC) 11th March 2021...
CONVERSION THERAPY BANS Enshrining a Contested View of Human Nature in Law
Download the Full article here CONVERSION THERAPY BANS Enshrining a Contested View of Human Nature in Law This article examines bans on “conversion therapy”, a broad term used to describe...