Thousands of Canadians have signed petitions to ban conversion therapy

Dec 9, 2019 by

, BBC News:

Thousands of Canadians have rallied behind two petitions calling for a nationwide ban of conversion therapy. It’s part of a wider global trend condemning the practice.

Peter Gajdics came out as gay to his family when he was 23. His staunchly Catholic parents rejected his homosexuality, and he left home.

But Gajdics found himself struggling with deep depression and with feeling alienated and estranged, and his doctor referred him to a psychiatrist.

That psychiatrist centred on Gajdics’ sexuality as the problem, telling him that abuse he suffered as a child created a “false notion” that he was homosexual.

“So the goal in my therapy would be to work through my ‘trauma’ and therefore I would revert to my innate heterosexuality,” says Gajdics. “Everything about my therapy became focused to do that.”

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