Gender conversion or retraining therapies are pseudo-treatments that aim to change the sexual orientation of homosexuals so that they become straight, or to change a person’s gender so that they are no longer transgender.
Malta is therefore the first European to ban this type of therapy.
10,000 euros fine and 5 years imprisonment
Bill, passed unanimously, calls gay conversion therapy a process “misleading and harmful”. Now anyone found guilty of trying to “to change, repress, or eliminate a person’s sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or gender expression” will be subject to a fine or imprisonment.
As for health professionals who prescribe “anti-gay” therapies, they could face fines of up to 10,000 euros and a prison term of up to one year, according to the daily Malta Today.
Finally, the new Maltese law decrees that“no expression of sexual orientation, sexual or gender identity constitutes a disorder, disease or defect of any kind”, and lowers to 16 the age at which people can request a change in sex without parental approval.
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