Canada reintroduces bill banning LGBT conversion therapy

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Conversion therapy is any practice designed to change a person’s sexual orientation, which especially harms and stigmatizes those belonging to the lesbian, gay, bisexual or trans community. Federal Minister of Justice David Lametti said the new bill will include five amendments to Canada’s Criminal Code to include offences such as causing a minor to undergo conversion therapy, causing any person to undergo the therapy against their will, and profiting off from the practice.“Conversion therapy is harmful, degrading, and has no place in Canada … I hope that all parties will do the right thing by supporting this bill,” Prime Minster Justin Trudeau told reporters on Thursday.

Trudeau’s Liberal Party promised to ban the practice during an unveiling of the party’s election platform last year.Some 20% of sexual minority men in Canada have undergone some form of conversion therapy, according government data. Lower income, indigenous and trans people are disproportionately exposed to the practice, the data shows.Canadian cities such as Vancouver in British Columbia and Calgary in Alberta are banning the practice within their borders, a government statement said.

Good that shouldn't exists.

Finally america you next

Anyone who needs to change the nature of another person to satisfy themselves is exhibiting a dangerous pathology. You are sick, please seek help before you hurt anyone else.

It's absolutely mind-boggling such a bill has to introduced in the first place. Why we still fight!! pridebeyouLGBTQ

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O Canada 🤦‍♀️

How about those great nurses torturing that native American woman before she died. Ahhh Canadian medicine is a the Best

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Passing this into law ought to be a slam-dunk right now.

Good. Who are you to tell someone else who they can have feelings for! cdnpoli canpoli Canada

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