The government has skirted around this issue ever since they announced it years ago. It should’ve been banned then, it should’ve been banned by now. I don’t expect that to change before the general election.
Conversion therapy is universally considered harmful to the mental health and wellbeing of its subjects, and has widely been denounced as science as ineffective pseudoscience. It isn’t one that is open for debate, and you cannot change or ‘fix’ someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity.
There are laws against torture and cruelty which is why the horror of the American style “pray/beat the gay away” craze never took off here (isolated cases not withstanding).
So why is additional legislation needed if it’s already illegal?
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The government has skirted around this issue ever since they announced it years ago. It should’ve been banned then, it should’ve been banned by now. I don’t expect that to change before the general election.
Conversion therapy is universally considered harmful to the mental health and wellbeing of its subjects, and has widely been denounced as science as ineffective pseudoscience. It isn’t one that is open for debate, and you cannot change or ‘fix’ someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity.
There are laws against torture and cruelty which is why the horror of the American style “pray/beat the gay away” craze never took off here (isolated cases not withstanding).
So why is additional legislation needed if it’s already illegal?