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Conversion therapy ban receives royal assent, now law in Canada

Conversion therapy ban receives royal assent, now law in Canada

Conversion therapy ban receives royal assent, now law in Canada
Dec 08, 2021 51 secs

The bill banning conversion therapy in Canada received royal assent on Wednesday, making it into law.

Bill C-4 makes providing, promoting or advertising conversion therapy a criminal offence.

The bill defines conversion therapy as the “practice, treatment or service designed to change a person’s sexual orientation to heterosexual, or to change a person’s gender identity to cisgender.”.

Senate passes bill banning conversion therapy that includes new Criminal Code offences.

In a tweet, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called conversion therapy “despicable and degrading.”.

It’s official: Our government’s legislation banning the despicable and degrading practice of conversion therapy has received Royal Assent – meaning it is now law.

The new law creates four new Criminal Code offences: causing a person to undergo conversion therapy, subjecting a minor to conversion therapy abroad, profiting from the provision of conversion therapy and advertising or promoting the practice, with penalties of two to five years in prison.

“The Trudeau government has been using LGBTQ2S Canadians as political pawns and conversion therapy as a political weapon

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