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United Nations calls for an end to “cruel, inhuman, or degrading” conversion therapy

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report released in May that documented the various forms the practice takes and characterized the practice as a threat to LGBTQ people across the globe.The report defines conversion therapy as “interventions of a wide-ranging nature, all of which are premised on the belief that a person’s sexual orientation and gender identity, including gender expression, can and should be changed or suppressed” when it does not comply to societal expectations of gender norms.The report, written by Victory Madrigal-Borloz, the U.N.

Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, says conversion therapy constitutes “cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment,” especially when it is conducted forcibly or without an individual’s consent, and “may.

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