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Conversion therapy is the pseudoscientific practice of attempting to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity. [1] As of December 2023, twenty-eight countries have bans on conversion therapy, fourteen of them ban the practice by any person: Belgium, [2] Canada, Cyprus, Ecuador, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Malta, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal and Spain; seven ban ...
And on 9 March 2020, the Minister of Justice introduced Bill C-8, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (conversion therapy). [159] Due to a prorogue of parliament by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the bill died and was later revived in 2020 as Bill C-6, and was passed in the House of Commons with some opposition from Conservative MPs. [160] [161]
Conversion therapy is the pseudoscientific ... addition of psychodynamic therapy. [16] [18] ... the practice of conversion therapy, including Canada ...
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The Act imposes criminal penalties on anyone causing another person to undergo conversion therapy, removing a child from Canada to perform conversion therapy, advertising or promoting conversion therapy, and benefiting financially from conversion therapy. The Act includes both sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression in its ...
On November 22, 2021, Kmiec tabled Bill C-211, [12] An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code (bereavement leave), which would have expanded unpaid bereavement leave for parents. A month after tabling the bill, a deal was struck between Labour Minister Seamus O'Reagan and Conservative labour critic Scott Aitchison to add parts of Bill C-211 into ...
Gray voted against a bill that would prohibit compelling people to undergo conversion therapy intended to alter their sexual orientations. [31] Gray supported an updated bill to ban conversion therapy in Canada which passed unanimously in Parliament, Bill C-4, stating that this revised legislation addressed her concerns from the previous iteration.
Similar transgender laws also exist in all the provinces and territories. Conversion therapy is banned in the provinces of Manitoba, [203] Ontario, [204] and Nova Scotia, [205] and the city of Vancouver, [206] though the Nova Scotia law includes a clause which allows "mature minors" between the ages of 16 and 18 to consent.