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Regina City Council holding special meeting around conversion therapy on Wednesday By News Room
Regina City Council has split their regular meeting up into two days.
Wednesday afternoon will be strictly committed to conversion therapy and the debate of whether or not to launch a feasibility study on a conversion therapy ban in the city of Regina.
City Administration has defined conversion therapy as a “practice that seeks to change a person’s sexual orientation to heterosexual, to repress other sexual attraction or behaviors.”
The Canadian Psychological Association, Canadian Psychiatric Association and Canadian Pediatric Society have said conversion therapy is harmful to the LGBTQ community.
Posted: Apr 28, 2021 4:00 AM CT | Last Updated: April 29
At a special meeting lasting several hours on Wednesday, council voted unanimously in favour of a feasibility study and community consultations on a bylaw that would ban conversion therapy. (Matt Duguid/CBC)
Regina city council is moving closer toward a potential ban on conversion therapy.
At a special meeting lasting several hours on Wednesday, council voted unanimously to bring forward a proposed bylaw banning conversion therapy for a vote in July.
Council also voted in favour of sending the federal government a letter in support of banning conversion therapy in principle it was amended from being in support of Bill C-6.