Swiss advocates anticipate "conversion therapy tourism"
With the Swiss parliament readying a debate over conversion therapy and many other EU countries banning the practice, LGBTQ groups in Switzerland have been voicing fears that the country could become a haven for "conversion therapy tourism."

Conversion therapy is by no means popular in the Swiss parliament, whose members broadly agree the practice is bad, regardless of party affiliation. The debate mainly concerns how it should be treated.

"Some politicians think we don't have to do anything, we already have enough laws, and we could prevent it with that," said Pink Cross managing director Roman Heggli. "We tell them it's not enough, and we can see that because conversion therapy is still happening in Switzerland, and we have a lot of victims."

Heggli explained that the term "conversion therapy" itself isn't widely used by those practicing it, which makes it harder to root out.

"They say it's only a self-finding trip, a therapy, or they want people to accept themselves," Heggli said. "But of course that's a lie because they don't really want them to accept themselves. They just want to make them straight and cis."

Heggli said he was confident that public opinion would favor a ban, but also that "Switzerland has to acknowledge this problem and fight back."

Transphobic film screening blocked at Scottish U
A film screening at the University of Edinburgh was canceled on December 14 after protestors blockaded the venues hosting it. The university's Pride Society had previously called on Principal Peter Mathieson to stop the event, saying the film was "a clear attack on Trans people's identities."

The film to be shown was Adult Human Female, billed as an "explainer about the issues, how far things have already changed for the worse for women and how difficult it has been to be heard, to be listened to."

More specifically, the film is about how certain women feel threatened by the existence of Trans women, and try to justify their position partly with simplistic biology facts while conflating sex and gender.

A spokesperson for the Pride Society told BBC Scotland that "the occupation and all protests around it make it clear that students of the University of Edinburgh will not tolerate transphobia on campus."

In response, counter-protestors in favor of the screening showed up with signs and chants featuring the slogan "women won't wheesht," meaning "women won't be silenced."

The screening itself was organized by University of Edinburgh Academics for Academic Freedom (AFAF), which is made up of university staff. They called the cancellation a "temporary victory for censorious bullies" and promised to organize another screening next year.

Meanwhile, the university said in a statement that it stood by its decisions to both cancel the screening for safety reasons and allow it in the first place.