ADVOCATES WELCOME CANADIAN MOVE AGAINST CONVERSION PRACTICES
LGBTIQ advocacy group, just.equal, has welcomed Canada's move toward criminalising LGBTIQ conversion practices.
Spokesperson, Brian Greig, said,
"We welcome Canada's move to criminalise conversion practices and hope it encourages Australian legislators to do the same."
"Conversion practices are so cruel and destructive that a simple ban is inadequate and a criminal penalty must apply."
"We hope the ideology behind conversion practices - that LGBTIQ people are broken and need to be fixed - will also be dealt with in the Canadian proposal."
The Canadian proposal will criminalise encouragement to undertake conversion practices, as well as any promotion of such practices, with an exemption for personal views expressed in private.
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For more information contact Brian Greig 0407 776 961.
