EU Opts Not to Ban Conversion Therapy, Urges Member States to Act
The European Union has decided against implementing a direct ban on LGBTQ+ 'conversion therapy' across the bloc. Instead, the EU will push individual member states to enact their own prohibitions on the practice.
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EU will not ban LGBTQ+ 'conversion therapy' but will push states to do so
Brussels argued it does not have the legal authority to ban the practices and feared encroaching on the prerogatives of member states. It will therefore leave it up to them to take action.
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The European Union will not ban “conversion therapy” targeting LGBTQ people, but will push member states to take action against such practices, it said on Wednesday. So-called conversion “therapies” involve methods that seek to change the sexual orientation or gender identity or expression of members of gay, lesbian, queer and trans people. The EU stopped short of heeding a call by over a million people, who signed a petition last May calling on the 27-country bloc to prohibit such...
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