Canada has become the latest country to nationally ban LGBTQ+ conversion therapy after the bill was approved to become law last Wednesday. Effective as of January 7,Bill C-4will amend the Canadian criminal code so that anybody who has caused another to undergo conversion therapy could face up ...
OTTAWA — Gemma Hickey says when they were in their teens, they went to a faith-based conversion therapy practitioner who had them pray and read literature to try to make them heterosexual.
Efforts to ban it in other states continue but move slowly. It is a misnomer to refer to efforts to change one’s sexual orientation as "therapy." Such efforts fail to be therapeutic in several key respects. It is not client-centered. On the very first day of counseling graduate...
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Nicholas Schiavo, founder of advocacy group No Conversion Canada, said federal leaders should ensure the legislation receives unanimous approval to send a clear message to LGBTQ Canadians that conversion therapy is unacceptable. He called O’Toole’s decision to allow a free vote disappointing...
Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole will once again allow his caucus to have a free vote on a government bill seeking to ban conversion therapy. The so-called therapy is widely discredited as a harmful practice, aimed at trying to change an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity...
conversion therapy for adolescents is harmful was never properly studied. Most argue it doesn’t need to be. Based on expert consensus, literature from theharms of conversion therapy on adults, and inference, nearly every major medical organization labeled sexual orientation conversion therapy unethical...
The Liberal government is set to introduce a tougher version of its earlier bill to ban conversion therapy, which failed to pass before Parliament was dissolved for the election. Nicholas Schiavo of the advocacy group No Conversion Canada says he has been told by government representatives that ...
The bill would ban removing a minor from Canada for the purpose of undergoing conversion therapy abroad. It would also make it illegal to profit from providing the therapy and advertising to provide it. Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole has said the eventual vote on the bill ...
The bill would ban removing a minor from Canada for the purpose of undergoing conversion therapy abroad. It would also make it illegal to profit from providing the therapy and advertising to provide it. Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole has said the eventual vote on the bill wil...