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Businesses that offer conversion therapy, the widely discredited practice of attempting to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity, are officially outlawed in Saskatoon.
City council voted 9-1 on Tuesday afternoon in favour of the bylaw prohibiting the businesses, after hearing from several speakers and receiving hundreds of letters supporting the ban.
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Hill was absent from Tuesday’s public hearing on the bylaw.
Coun. Randy Donauer cast the sole dissenting vote after his proposed amendment, which would have excluded voluntary, non-coercive counselling for consenting adults from the definition of conversion therapy, failed to find a seconder.
SASKATOON Microbiologist Kyle Anderson has seen and heard a lot of misinformation in regards to COVID-19, which he says is dangerous. “Generally, the first thing they hear about a topic (is what they believe)”, he said. “If the first thing they hear is one chiropractor s opinion about how masks have no possibility of working, and then you ve got thousands of research scientists who do this for a living who say it does, someone will say, Well, I heard this other thing first, and that s what I m going to choose to believe.” “It s like trying to herd cats,” said Anderson.