Canada seeks to ban LGBTQ conversion therapy

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS MARCH 9, 2020 / 5:04 PM / UPDATED 3 HOURS AGO

Canada seeks to ban LGBTQ conversion therapy

Denise Paglinawan
2 MIN READ

TORONTO (Reuters) - The Canadian federal government introduced new legislation on Monday to criminalize LGBTQ conversion therapy, as Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government moves to fulfill one of its 2019 election promises.

The proposed amendments to Canada’s Criminal Code include offenses such as causing a person to undergo conversion therapy, advertising and profiting from conversion therapy and removing a minor from Canada.

Conversion therapy is any practice designed to change a person’s sexual orientation to heterosexual, gender identity to one that matches the sex assigned at birth, or to repress or reduce non-heterosexual sexual attraction or behaviors, according to the legislation.

The bill also amends the Criminal Code to authorize courts to order disposing of or deleting advertisements for conversion therapy.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-lgbt/canada-seeks-to-ban-lgbtq-conversion-therapy-idUSKBN20W2XV

[Celerity]

1. good!!!!!!!

[Fiendish Thingy]

2. Conversion therapy has been against Counsellors' code of ethics for years

But this adds criminality to the heinous practice.