Canada bans conversion therapy, a practice Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calls 'despicable and degrading.'
Canada on Wednesday banned conversion therapy, which are treatments that claim to be able to change a person's sexual orientation or identity.
The law makes it a crime to subject a person of any age, consenting or not, to such treatment.'A legal form of abuse': Conversion therapy is lurking in the shadowsSo-called conversion therapies rely on the assumption that sexual orientation can be changed or"cured" -- an idea discredited by major medical associations in the US, the UK and elsewhere.It's often performed by religious leaders, but licensed clinicians are also engaged in the practice.
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