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France Outlaws Discredited Practice of LGBTQ+ Conversion Therapy
Canada approved a ban on it.Conversion therapy is a harmful and discredited practice attempting to change a person’s sexuality or gender identity. The practice has been condemned by the American Medical Association and other leading medical and mental health groups around the world.The country’s ban prohibits “practices, behaviors, and repeated statements with the intent of modifying or repressing a person’s real or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity, and having the effect of a material alteration to their mental or physical health,” according to French news site The Connexion.France’s legislation would jail anyone for up to two years for offering LGBTQ+ conversion therapy.
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France, officially the French Republic, is a country consisting of metropolitan France in Western Europe and several overseas regions and territories. The metropolitan area of France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. It borders Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany to the northeast, Switzerland, Monaco, and Italy to the east, and Andorra and Spain to the south. The overseas territories include French Guiana in South America and several islands in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. The country's 18 integral regions (five of which are situated overseas) span a combined area of 643,801 square kilometres (248,573 sq mi) and a total population of 67.07 million (as of May 2020).