ACT’s conversion therapy ban puts practitioners at risk

Posted on August 28, 2020 
Filed under Culture wars

“The Sexuality and Gender Identity Conversion Practices Bill, introduced into the ACT Assembly a couple of weeks ago, has become embroiled in controversy. It arises out of lobbying by members of the LGBT community to ban ‘conversion therapy’, in the context of past practices seeking to change people’s sexual orientation. However, the main controversy about the bill concerns its prohibition of what it describes as ‘gender identity conversion practices’…”

– This story from The Canberra Times highlights concerns – others have been raised by The Australian Christian Lobby.