LGBTQ Advocates Hail Canada’s Ban of Conversion Therapy
In a major victory for sexual minority advocates, Canada last week banned conversion therapy, a widely discredited practice that aims to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. The law makes it a crime to subject anyone in Canada to conversion therapy, profit from the practice or take a Canadian outside the country to undergo conversion therapy elsewhere. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took to Twitter to hail the ban of what he called “a despicable and degrading practice.” University of Ottawa student Jonathan Di Carlo calls himself a conversion …