Reintroduction of Conversion Therapy Bill Raises Concerns

Bill blocks attempts to align with anatomic sex before 'extreme measure involving gender transition is attempted,' says expert

The Peace Tower on Parliament Hill on March 12, 2020. The Canadian Press/Fred Chartrand

The Liberal government has reintroduced legislation to ban conversion therapy across Canada—a move that concerns some Conservatives as well as some legal and medical experts.

Bill C-6 seeks to create criminal offences for “a practice, treatment or service designed to change a person’s sexual orientation to heterosexual or gender identity to cisgender, or to repress or reduce non-heterosexual attraction or sexual behaviour” by amending the Criminal Code.