Bill hailed as Tasmania’s best chance to end conversion practices

[Sarah B ✅]

Title: Bill hailed as Tasmania's best chance to end conversion practices
Link To: Article 🔗 [Link: outinperth.com/bill-​hailed-​as-​tasmanias-​best-​chance-​to-​end-​conversion-​practices/]
Author: Graeme Watson
Date: 10 September 2026
Trigger Warning: This article discusses abuse.
Brief summary of the article
Equality Tasmania says a bill introduced by Tasmanian Greens leader Rosalie Woodruff represents the state's best opportunity to ban conversion practices. The proposed legislation includes civil and criminal penalties, survivor remedies, mandatory reporting and an education and prevention scheme, with parliamentary debate expected in October or November.
Main Points of the Article
"The bill is Tasmania's best chance to end conversion practices and the harm they inflict."

"We urge MPs to focus on the harm conversion practices inflict when they are considering the bill and to bring Tasmania into line with other states and territories by banning those practices."
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[Lori Dee ✅]

They need to focus on the research that shows that you cannot change someone's gender or sexual preferences by talking to them.

If that were even remotely possible, many of us would have changed in some way just by talking to a therapist.

Conversion therapy is not therapy; it is quackery.