Canada passes ban on conversion therapy

Published December 9, 2021 12:49pm ET



Canada has banned conversion therapy.

Canada voted to ban the act of providing, promoting, or advertising conversion therapy on Wednesday. The bill defined conversion therapy as the “practice, treatment or service designed to change a person’s sexual orientation to heterosexual, or to change a person’s gender identity to cisgender.”

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