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Conversion Therapy On Kids Now A Crime In ACT

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Conversion practices performed on a child or a person with impaired decision making ability will be a crime in the Australian Capital Territory and can invite a prison term of up to 12 months and fines of up to $24,000.The ACT Parliament has passed the law which prohibits conversion practices, becoming the second Australian state/territory to have such a ban.

The Sexuality and Gender Identity Conversion Practices Bill 2020 passed 14 to 11 with the Labor and Green parties in favour and Liberals opposing it.Any person who performs a sexuality and gender identity conversion practice on a child or a person with impaired decision-making ability or takes them out of ACT to subject them to such “therapies” can be punished with fines of up to.

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