[2] Quentin Van Meter, the president of the anti-LGBT group American College of Pediatricians gave a speech titled "The Travesty of the Current State of Transgender Medicine" at the IFTCC in November 2018.
Van Meter and the American College of Pediatricians, which has been labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, have supported bills banning transgender healthcare for minors.
The IFTCC filed an official complaint to Malta’s High Commissioner to the UK Joseph Cole describing her criticism as an "unprecedented personal attack" and later hosted the premiere of "Once Gay" in Belfast, a documentary about Grech and "his right to be an ex-gay".
The conference was held in a secret location, which Hír TV stated was because "the homosexual and gender lobby, as well as the medical organizations controlled by them, will make the conversation impossible".
Davidson stated "professional mental health bodies [in the UK and Ireland] refuse to allow people to receive help to change their sexual preferences" and "the International Federation for Therapeutic and Counseling Choice will continue to offer support to those who de-transition from transgendered identities and those who no longer want to be gay".
The reporter contacted the IFTCC and spoke to Davidson, who referred him to the priest Jens Fredrick Brenne, a leader of Til Heltet, a Norwegian Christian group that opposes bans on conversion therapy.
When Dagens Nyheter revealed the reporter was undercover and asked Til Heltet for comment, chairman of the board and IFTCC member Ole Gremstad Jensen said they didn't practice conversion therapy, stating "Our work is controversial in nature because the secular West has abandoned the biblical values on which it was once built."