It comes after ministers removed therapies for transgender people from a forthcoming ban.
The Memorandum of Understanding Coalition Against Conversion Therapy , whose members include NHS England and the British Medical Association, published an open letter downplaying the risk of unintended consequences and called for any ban to include all forms of conversion therapy.
The government has said it would carry out separate work on the issue of transgender conversion therapy but was keen for any policy not to have unintended consequences, describing it as a legally complex area. He added: "Clinicians can still help people fully explore their gender identity where appropriate but it's time for this unacceptable and harmful practice to end."
The Women's Rights Network said they agreed with the prime minister's decision to not include transgender people in a ban, adding: "numerous therapists and the findings of the recent Cass Review that children should not be able to make irreversible life-changing decisions, particularly without parental involvement.
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