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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.
In October 2020, the Quebec Government introduced a bill to ban conversion therapy. [123] It was passed unanimously on 9 December 2020 and given Royal assent on 11 December 2020. The Act provides that any person having undergone such therapy, that is, through spiritual or non-spiritual practice, service or treatment, may obtain reparation for ...
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On October 1, 2020, Lemetti re-introduced the bill, designed to create criminal offences for performing conversion therapy on a child (under 18), forcing an adult to undergo it, removing a child from Canada to undergo conversion therapy, while also prohibiting advertising or profiting of conversion therapy for both adult and children. [73]
A new bill prohibiting conversion therapy, first introduced in February, ... Conversion therapy is considered a harmful practice by the American Psychological Association, American Psychiatric ...
The Government will publish a draft Bill detailing its proposed approach to ban conversion practices on the basis of sexuality and gender identity. Law to ban conversion therapy ‘will protect ...
The bill was introduced on 17 May 2016 by Justin Trudeau's Liberal government as Bill C-16 of the first session of the 42nd Parliament. [1] It passed in the House of Commons by 248–40 votes and in the Senate by 67–11 votes with three abstentions. [2] [3] The bill became law upon receiving royal assent on 19 June 2017, coming into force ...