“There is help out there for people who are suffering from religious homophobia.
Matthew Mahmood-Ogston is the founder and trustee of a charity called Naz and Matt Foundation, which aims to help parents accept their children for who they are.
Matthew’s determination to speak about religious and cultural homophobia deserves appreciation.”
“A 2009 survey of 1,328 accredited mental health professionals, published in the BMC Psychiatry Journal, found that more than 200 LGBT had been offered some form of conversion therapy, with 35 per cent of patients referred to them for treatment by GPs and 40 per cent treated inside an NHS practice.
Conversion therapy, also known as reparative or ex-gay therapy, has been extensively condemned as wrong and unproductive but it still continues in many parts of America, mostly through churches, and is a battleground issue for gay rights campaigners and those who argue that banning it would curb religious freedom.
Gay cure therapy is still legal in the UK and the government needs to do more to criminalise it.”
Hi
My daughter is 14(and is not religious) and is in a relationship with a muslim girl.I am fully supportive of my daughter and have been since she came out.I also support her relationship. However it seems that her girlfriends mother has a hint they are more than friends and has no told her daughter she is not allowed to see mine.My daughter is so upset.Also this girl last night threatend self harm.I just have no idea what to do.I feel the authorities should be notified about the self harm at least?? Any advice would be great thanks
Dear Sally,
Thank you for your comment, and for reaching out with your question about your daughter and her girlfriend.
We’ve have also received an email from you.
As our response will contain some personal info, we will reply to your email rather than your comment here.
Our email will be with you later this evening,
Kindest regards,
Support Team
Naz and Matt Foundation