Ahead of a potential change in law to ban conversion practice in Tasmania, a petition being pushed by the Christian lobby says the community has been 'taken by surprise' by the push to outlaw conversion practices and urges it be reconsidered.
showed people like myself who have been through conversion therapy are more likely to have post-traumatic stress disorders.
"The problem was I didn't need a solution, that is what we are looking to say in this legislation, this isn't a form of therapy that is needed, it damages people long term." "There are still some people who believe we are fundamentally broken and need to be healed," he said."The last thing we want to see is a state that drags its feet, become a haven for conversion practices.""In 2017, when a majority of Australians voted yes for marriage equality, they also effectively rejected the kind of fearmongering that says that whenever we treat LGBTQIA+ people well and fair under the law, the sky will fall in," he said.
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