Irish lawmaker proposes bill to ban ‘harmful and deceptive’ conversion therapies

By Zoe Tabary

March 15, 2018

ARCHIVE PHOTO: A couple walks hand in hand from the count centre in Dublin as Ireland holds a referendum on gay marriage May 23, 2015. REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton

Many gay people are still forced to undergo archaic and invasive therapy based on the idea that homosexuality is a mental disorder or medical condition

By Zoe Tabary

LONDON, March 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – An Irish lawmaker has introduced a bill that would ban so-called conversion therapies claiming to “cure” lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.

Fintan Warfield, a senator with Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein, proposed the bill on Wednesday to ban conversion therapy as a “deceptive and harmful act or practice against a person’s sexual orientation, gender identity and, or gender expression”.

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Irish lawmaker proposes bill to ban ‘harmful and deceptive’ conversion therapies

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