Britain on Thursday set out plans to criminalise abusive and harmful therapies intended to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity.
Government publishes draft Conversion Practices Bill for England and Wales, banning so-called ‘conversion therapies’.
Offenders carrying out such practices could face an unlimited fine and/or up to five years in prison. Bill would also criminalise encouraging or assisting conversion therapies carried out outside England and Wales.
Britain pledged
