The Justice Department says it is not aware of any charges or prosecutions under the new criminal code offences prohibiting conversion therapy, which came into force on Jan. 7 last year.
Conversion therapy is the practice of attempting to change an individual's sexual orientation to heterosexual or to change their gender identity to match the sex they were assigned at birth.
He said that historically, LGBTQ communities have had a "fraught relationship" with police services, but the criminal justice system continues to require victims to come forward and make a complaint. "Asking survivors to come forward and relive that trauma, or that stigma or that guilt or that shame or whatever they feel, is very, very hard," he said.Schiavo said conversion therapy continues to be pervasive and sometimes victims are hesitant to speak up.
But he said more needs to be done to support survivors, and there needs to be more education about conversion therapy.
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