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No plans in Ottawa for conversion therapy bylaw, mayor says after Kingston moves toward ban

No plans in Ottawa for conversion therapy bylaw, mayor says after Kingston moves toward ban
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Ottawa’s mayor and city staff tell Global News there are no plans to put forward a bylaw to regulate conversion therapy after Kingston became the first city in Ontario to announce its intention to ban the practices municipally.
Conversion therapy refers to a range of practices designed to repress or change a person’s sexual orientation, behaviour or gender identity, according to No Conversion Canada, a group lobbying to outlaw such practices across the country. Conversion therapy can take many forms, including exorcism-like ceremonies, forced fasting or extreme isolation, among others. ....

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Kingston city council to consider support for conversion therapy ban

Author of the article: Elliot Ferguson
Publishing date: Jan 09, 2021 • January 11, 2021 • 1 minute read
Portsmouth District Coun. Bridget Doherty at a city council meeting on Feb. 5, 2019. Photo by Elliot Ferguson /The Whig-Standard
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KINGSTON City councillors are to be asked to lend their support to a federal ban on conversion therapy.
The widely debunked practice of trying to change someone’s sexual or gender orientation through therapy, aversion therapy, drugs, prayer or exorcism is to be largely outlawed under proposed legislation before Parliament.
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