Finish Lawmakers Consider Conversion Therapy Ban

Country: Finland

Date of incident: August 23, 2021


Lawmaker in Finland have agreed to consider a conversion therapy ban after a citizen initiative received the required 50,000 signatures. The initiative was launched in July by Perttu Jussila and it had since reached 52,721 signatures which meant it would be referred to Parliament. If it would become law, traditional Christian teaching on gender would be challenged.

The initiative called for the ban of child and adult conversion therapy.

 

Source:yle.fi

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