A rainbow-clad crowd burst into applause at city hall Monday as council unanimously passed a motion to ban conversion therapy.
Calgary joins Edmonton and St. Albert as another Alberta community taking steps to block the harmful and discredited practice of using psychological or spiritual intervention to change a person’s sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.
City staff will now draft a bylaw that prohibits conversion therapy and fine anyone found advertising or offering the practice in Calgary. The motion also includes a request to push the federal and provincial governments to end the practice.
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