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LGBT News Canada Bans Conversion Therapy

Discussion in 'Current Events, World News, & LGBT News' started by Hawk, Jan 7, 2022.

  1. Hawk

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    A law coming into effect Friday, January 7, 2022, will ban conversion therapy making it a crime to provide or promote services intended to change or repress a person's sexual orientation or gender identity.

    "With the new law, Canada’s criminal code will prohibit forcing someone to undergo conversion therapy; taking a minor abroad to take part; and profiting from, promoting or advertising the practice. Violations can draw sentences of up to five years’ imprisonment."

    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/06/world/canada/canada-conversion-therapy-law.html
     
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    Hawk.....I can only wish the US would do the same thing. But we are so religious. Our religions care for the souls of our people while they encourage our LGBTQIA+ youth to be tortured.
    David
     
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    I'm very happy for Canada. I'm glad a few US states have banned it, but I'd like there to be a federal law against conversion therapy. Hell I'll take the supreme court striking down conversion therapy as unconstitutional, though I can tell if that would actually hold up in court.
     
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    Another reason to start learning "O Canada."
     
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    Happy for Canada US needs this next
     
  6. I Love Dory

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    It's great canada banned it. I wish the US could do the same.
     
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    America needs to ban this effective immediately.
     
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    Totally agree
     
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    Really, I feel like the whole "Free country" thing might be a lie.
     
  10. I Love Dory

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    exactly, that's what i think
     
  11. Persion

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    What if this country was just turning into what it was meant to be but people kept intervening and made us restart?
     
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    good theory
    makes sense too
    might be the case tbh
     
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    This is amazing. I hope the US adopts a similar bill to this next. It's pretty rock solid and it also includes not traveling abroad with the minor to get conversion therapy.
     
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    I know. I wish the same. Blue states are likely to pass laws against conversion therapy while red states, which usually have a lot of religious bigots with narrow minds, are more resistant to doing this.

    I don't think they can come up with many - if any - examples of where it has worked. But there are way too many examples of where it has mentally tormented people.
     
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    Considering the US is struggling with state legislatures intentionally bullying lgbt kids in red states, I’m not optimistic. Not unless a loooot of states flip. Which, I’m terrified of the House flipping this fall. The current GOP clearly haaaaaates us. A lot.

    Happy for Canada, though.
     
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    Yay for Canada, I hope the US follows but I know it won’t :frowning2:
     
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    I didn't know the US even had conversion therapy !
     
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    Yep
     
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    You might be right.
     
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    I know this has no relation to this post but: What if the U.S banned and illegalized any and all forms of: racism, abuse, and discrimination? Plus, what if the U.S made the Confederate flag, beliefs, and practices illegal? Then, and only then, will the U.S be an equal and fair country.