LGBT+ campaigners say the European Union’s first ever LGBTI+ Strategy is the perfect moment to ban ‘conversion therapy’ across Europe.
The European Commission – the EU’s executive branch – will launch the strategy tomorrow. It is not clear what it will contain.
But campaigners hope it may improve the rights of LGBT+ parents and families and guarantee legal recognition to trans’ people’s true genders.
Meanwhile they say it is an opportunity for the EU to tackle ‘conversion therapy’. The attempts to ‘cure’ people’s sexuality or gender identity do not work and can cause serious psychological harm.