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Ban on conversion therapy is only a first step for LGBTQ+ youth
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When David J. Kinitz was 16 years old, he self-enrolled in conversion therapy, thinking there was no place in the world for him as a queer young person.
Today in The Conversation Canada, Kinitz, who is now a PhD student at the University of Toronto, talks about the harmful impact of the ideas behind conversion therapy, a widely discredited practice that aims to change the sexual orientation, gender identity or expression of LGBTQ+ people.
Kinitz says the federal government’s introduction of a bill to ban conversion therapy is just the first step to eradicating the terrible homophobic messages surrounding LGBTQ+ youth.
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Vinita Srivastava
Director of Journalism Innovation | Senior Editor, Culture + Society
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Today's Featured Articles
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The social pressures to be ‘straight’ and ‘cis’ can be overwhelming for LGBTQ+ people, especially youth. Adding conversion therapy to the criminal code of Canada is a good first step to supporting them.
(Jeremy Mcknight/Unsplash)
David J Kinitz, University of Toronto
The Trudeau government took the first step to federally ban conversion therapy — a practice intended to change sexual orientation.
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