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France the latest to ban conversion therapy. So what about SA?

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As France becomes the newest country to ban conversion therapy as damaging and unethical quackery, isn’t it time that South Africa follows suit? On Tuesday, France’s Parliament voted to ban the pseudoscientific practice which aims to “cure” or change LGBTIQ+ people’s sexual orientation or gender identity, often with disastrous consequences.

Conversion therapy has been discredited by mental health and human rights groups, including the World Psychiatric Association, as ineffective and harmful.

It is linked to depression, anxiety, drug abuse, homelessness and suicide. Methods may include electric shocks, prayer, counselling, physical abuse, “exorcism”, and even rape.

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