Federal government introduces legislation to ban conversion therapy in Canada
CBC
The federal government today announced new legislation that would effectively ban the practice of conversion therapy in Canada.
The proposed legislation will be "among the most comprehensive in the world," the government said in a news release.
Conversion therapy is the discredited practice of trying to change an individual's sexual orientation to heterosexual, to change an individual's gender identity to cisgender, or to change their gender expression to match the sex they were assigned at birth.
The Liberal government had tabled similar legislation to outlaw the practice earlier this year, but the late summer election wiped out the proposal before it could become law.
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