Canada reintroduces bill banning LGBTQ conversion therapy

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Canada reintroduces bill banning LGBTQ conversion therapy after an earlier effort to ban the practice failed as the parliament was discontinued due to the coronavirus pandemic. - NBCOUT

"Conversion therapy is harmful, degrading, and has no place in Canada … I hope that all parties will do the right thing by supporting this bill," Prime Minster Justin Trudeau told reporters on Thursday.

Trudeau's Liberal Party promised to ban the practice during an unveiling of the party's election platform last year.Some 20 percent of sexual minority men in Canada have undergone some form of conversion therapy, according government data. Lower income, indigenous and trans people are disproportionately exposed to the practice, the data shows.

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