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Survey on Conversion Therapy in SA

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Access Chapter 2 wants to know about your experience with LGBTQ conversion therapy as part of its efforts to stamp out this dangerous practice in South Africa. Conversion therapy (sometimes also called reparative therapy) is offered by certain therapists, religious counsellors and traditional healers in an attempt to change sexual orientation or gender identity in individuals It is particularly harmful when offered to or forced onto children and adolescents and has been linked to depression, anxiety, drug abuse, homelessness and suicide.

The World Psychiatric Association and many other mental health bodies, including the Psychological Society of South Africa, have asserted that conversion therapy is dangerous and unethical.

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