ACT Seeks To End Conversion Practices
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starobserver.com.auTwo years after it undertook to enact a law to ban sexuality and gender identity conversion practices, the ACT government last week introduced the legislation in the Assembly.Unlike the law passed in Queensland and panned by survivors for not going far enough, the ACT’s Sexuality and Gender Identity Conversion Practices Bill 2020 does not restrict itself to only health settings.
The ACT law also prohibits religious individuals and faith-based institutions from carrying out practices that seek to change an individual’s sexuality and gender identity.“Conversion practices are based in an ideology that LGBTQI people are ‘broken’ or ‘unnatural’ and encompass a wide range of activities that seek to ‘fix’ people, so that they become or express a.
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