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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 ...
Conversion therapy is the pseudoscientific practice of ... Some jurisdictions have criminal bans on the practice of conversion therapy, including Canada, Ecuador ...
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]
Canada this week banned conversion therapy, a debunked treatment that aims to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity.
High school students rally at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul, Minn., urging lawmakers to protect LGBTQ Minnesotans and youth from the effects of conversion therapy, on March 21, 2019.
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 ...
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.
The scientifically discredited practice of so-called conversion therapy, which aims to “convert” LGBTQ+ people to heterosexuality or traditional gender expectations, is now banned for minors ...