Conversion therapy now illegal in Canada after unanimous parliamentary approval

On Friday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took to Twitter to announce that conversion therapy was officially banned in Canada after unanimous parliamentary decision. Trudeau accentuated that it was now illegal in Canada to “promote, advertise, benefit from, or subject someone to this hateful and harmful practice. LGBTQ2 rights are human rights.”

Conversion therapy tactics included medical and drug-induced treatment, talk and aversion therapy, amongst others. Non-profit organisation Trans PULSE Canada revealed that up until 2019, 11% of 2,000 non-binary and transgender survey participants underwent conversion therapy.

Canada now joins a list of around a dozen other countries where conversion therapy is banned, with Malta being the first European country to ban conversion therapy back in 2016.

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