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The Liberal Party in Victoria want the Dan Andrews government to delay the vote on the bill banning conversion practices that seek to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity.The split in the party’s stand came to the fore at a meeting of the MPs on Tuesday.

In the lead up to New Zealand’s general elections on October 17, Jacinda Arden leader of New Zealand Labour and current PM has stated that if re-elected she would ban conversion therapy in the country.The commitment comes, after a recent survey found that more than one in six respondents had been subjected to attempts to stop them being trans or non-binary, Labour Party spokesman Tāmati Coffey said.“Conversion therapy has been linked to severe adverse mental health issues, including depression,

It’s getting harder to be gay in Poland in 2020 as Marek Jędraszewski, Archbishop of Kraków (the second largest city in Poland) suggested in a statement that a solution to the so called ‘rainbow plague’ in Poland could be the establishment of clinics to “cure” homosexuals.The statement came during a plenary meeting of the Polish Episcopal Conference (KEP) at the end of August, where they also said it is:“Necessary to create clinics (including with the assistance of the church) to help people who

Conversion practices performed on a child or a person with impaired decision making ability will be a crime in the Australian Capital Territory and can invite a prison term of up to 12 months and fines of up to $24,000.The ACT Parliament has passed the law which prohibits conversion practices, becoming the second Australian state/territory to have such a ban.

Sixteen Uniting Church ministers have in a joint letter extended their support to the ACT government’s new law that seeks to ban sexuality and gender identity conversion practices.This is in sharp contrast to conservative Christian organisations that have in the past two weeks upped the ante against the Sexuality and Gender Identity Conversion Practices Bill 2020, that they claim will turn pastors, teachers and parents into criminals.The ACT legislative assembly is scheduled to take up the bill

Pauline Hanson is at it again. This time the embattled senator has come out saying that parents of young children who believe their child might be transgender should have their children taken off them.“Confusing kids and going to the doctor and parent’s saying ‘Look, my four-year-old they really can’t identify, and we want to change their sex.’ You are bloody idiots, how can a kid at four years old know if they want to be male or if they actually want to be a girl.”The comments were made by

Two years after it undertook to enact a law to ban sexuality and gender identity conversion practices, the ACT government last week introduced the legislation in the Assembly.Unlike the law passed in Queensland and panned by survivors for not going far enough, the ACT’s Sexuality and Gender Identity Conversion Practices Bill 2020 does not restrict itself to only health settings.

Australia’s first proposed legislation criminalising “LGBT conversion therapy” has suffered setbacks and divides after receiving criticism and support on issues of medicinal practice and gender dysphoria.