Saturday, 6 February 2021, 2:24 pm
2021 marks the start of the fourth year since Young
Labour, Young Greens and Rodney Labour petitioned to ban
Conversion Therapy in Aotearoa. Prime Minister Jacinda
Ardern says that she wants to see the bill to ban Conversion
Therapy in Parliament by the end of 2021.
Conversion
therapy is any practice or form of treatment that seeks to
change, suppress, or eliminate someone’s sexual
orientation, gender identity and/or gender expression. The
fundamental principle of conversion therapy is that being
takatāpui, MVPFAFF, LGBTQIA+, or other BIPOC rainbow
identities – collectively known as “rainbow” - is
wrong and can be changed. Both claims are false. The CTAG