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The Age 2 February 2021 Doctors and psychiatrists want the Andrews government to make changes to its plan to ban gay conversion therapy, due to concerns it will discourage some practitioners from treating vulnerable patients. The Victorian branches of the Australian Medical Association and the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists say the […]

The reasoning behind ‘conversion therapy’ bans is often based on a 2018 research paper from the Human Rights Law Alliance and La Trobe University, “Preventing Harm, Promoting Justice” (PHPJ). It was based on the experiences of a mere 15 participants. But an organisation called Free To Change has researched the many ex-LGBT voices which testify to

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NewsTalk ZB 3 February 2021 The LGBT+ community will have to wait for legislation to ban conversion therapy to be introduced, with the Government confirming it isn’t coming just yet. Meanwhile, the National Party leader has been labelled ignorant after offering no view on whether the practice should be banned. Conversion therapy is the practice

Stuff co.nz 1 February 2021 The Government won’t say when it plans to roll out long-awaited legislation banning the practice of conversion therapy, despite it being a Labour manifesto pledge at the last election. The ban is coming, but Justice Minister Kris Faafoi’s office is being tight-lipped about when to expect it, saying they can’t

Family Research Council 26 January 2021 A recent Washington Post headline proclaims that “Biden’s ambitious LGBT agenda poises him to be nation’s most pro-equality president in history.” He allegedly earns this title by supporting several pro-LGBT policies. Specifically, one of Biden’s promises states that he will support legislative efforts to ban what critics of the practice call “conversion therapy”—counseling to

MercatorNet 25 January 2021 The Victorian government will soon be debating a “conversion therapy” bill. It has been introduced in response to reports by people of practices they experienced as harmful and traumatic (at the time or later) which were intended to change their sexual orientation or sexual behaviour from same-sex attracted to opposite sex

Breitbart 14 September 2019 The New York City Council is repealing a ban on counseling to help those who suffer from unwanted same-sex attraction and gender confusion. The council is backing down from its ban for fear the Supreme Court would strike it down along with other similar bans throughout the country. Council speaker Corey

Should parents,counsellors, doctors, and others be forbidden to help children love the body they are born with? ARPA November 2019 Recently enacted or proposed conversion therapy bans forbid counselling that helps children and teens love their bodies and feel comfortable in their own skin. They prohibit particular methods of alleviating gender dysphoria, which an astonishing