The Liberal government’s proposed legislation on conversion therapy would criminalize private conversations between children and their parents, says Conservative MP Garnett Genuis, who is urging parliamentarians to change the definition of “conversion therapy” in the bill before it’s passed. “The definition of conversion therapy is poorly drafted—is out of step with definitions of conversion therapy that are used in other jurisdictions,” Genuis told The Epoch Times in an interview. “It’s so broad as to classify as conversion therapy private conversations, and many kinds of things that actually have nothing to do with conversion therapy.” Bill C-6, tabled late last year, creates criminal offences for “practices, treatment or services designed to change an individual’s sexual orientation to heterosexual or gender identity to cisgender or to reduce non-heterosexual sexual attraction or sexual behaviour.” It bans “causing an individual to undergo conversion therapy against their will; causing a child to undergo conversion therapy; removing a child …
‘Fix the Definition’: Conservative MP on Liberal Government’s Conversion Therapy Ban Legislation
April 26, 2021
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