Gemma Hickey says vulnerable young people are still undergoing such treatment, and it is going unreported despite the practice becoming a crime a year ago
Gemma Hickey says when they were in their teens, they went to a faith-based conversion therapy practitioner who had them pray and read literature to try to make them heterosexual.
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. “Enforcement was always going to be a major issue with a criminalization approach to ending conversion practices,” Kwag said.
Nick Schiavo, founder of No Conversion Canada, said one of the challenges with conversion therapy is that it “always kind of happened in the shadows.” Schiavo said the ban still has a role to play, because it could act as a deterrent to anyone considering offering conversion therapy services.
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