Malta becomes first country in Europe to ban ‘gay cure’ therapy | The Independent

Malta becomes first country in Europe to ban ‘gay cure’ therapy | The Independent

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Gay conversion therapy has increasingly come under the spotlight in recent years. It remains more popular in the US than in Europe, where the law only prohibts offering the ‘therapy’ to minors, in some states.

The World Psychiatric Association has denounced the practice as unethical, unscientific and harmful to those who undergo it.

Two years ago, NHS England and the Royal College of Psychiatrists – along with 12 other organisations in the UK – signed an agreement which called it “potentially harmful and unethical”.

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Publish date : 2016-12-07 08:00:00

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