Conversion: Conversion Therapies and City

conversion: The rationale really falls under just the amount of research, as well as the individuals that we've spoken to, around the harm the lasting harms caused by that particular practice, according to Vancouver Courier. Conversion therapy, according to the committee's motion, is a range of pseudoscientific practices used with intentions of converting an individual's sexuality or gender identity into alignment with the heterosexual and cisgender majority. The city's LGBTQ2 advisory committee has asked the city to not grant business licences to anyone practising conversion therapies.article continues below Trending Stories Metro Vancouver housing prices to rise in 2018 Online fundraiser launched for victim in Burrard bridge crash One dead in Burrard bridge crash Co-owner of the infamous Elbow Room Cafe has died Jen Donovan, committee co-chair, says the move to ban conversion therapy which is also called reparative therapy is based on research that shows these kinds of therapies are harmful. As an umbrella term, it includes practices such as religious rites, behavioural modification therapy, medication use, and electroshock therapy or lobotomy.A cursory search for Vancouver care providers who offer conversion or reparative therapies yielded few results. However, it offers discipleship courses for people who want to heal unwanted self-identified same-sex attraction. However, the Courier did find a religious organization, Journey Canada, which states it is against conversion therapy. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.