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Petition calls for national ban on ‘conversion therapy’ for LGBT youth

October 10, 2018

Thousands of Canadians are pressing the federal government to ban “conversion therapy,” the controversial practice of counselling LGBT youth to become straight.

An online petition that will be presented in the House of Commons, signed by more than 2,500 people so far, urges the Liberals to outlaw the act of coercing or counselling minors to change their sexual orientation or gender identity, and to prohibit taking minors outside the country for that purpose.

‘Conversion therapy’ is the widely-discredited practice of trying to change someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity through counselling, behaviour modification or medication, based on the premise that being gay or trans is abnormal and can be ‘cured’.
 
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