New Zealand’s standing government made a public vow to do better and support the LGBTQ+ community by banning ‘conversion therapy’. ‘Conversion therapy’ is an inhumane act which traumatises its subject in a degrading effort to forcefully change a person’s sexual orientation.
It’s a widely condemned act which unfairly targets the LGBTQ+ community. If the current Labour Party successfully returns to power, they vow to overturn the practice and ban it. “Conversion therapy has been linked to severe adverse mental health issues, including depression, anxiety and suicidal ideation – that’s why it will be banned under a re-elected Labour Government,” Labour Party leader Tāmati Coffey said in a statement. “It is a practice that causes harm and is