The citizens' initiative to ban conversion therapies in the EU has collected over 1 milion signatures

 

The European citizens' initiative to ban on conversion practices in the European Union collected over one milion signatures.

Objectives: To call on the European Commission to propose a binding legal ban on conversion practices targeting LGBTQ+ citizens in the European Union (EU).

Conversion Practices are interventions aimed at changing, repressing or suppressing the sexual orientation, gender identity and/or gender expression of LGBTQ+ persons.

Such practices, due to their discriminatory, degrading, harmful and fraudulent nature have been qualified as torture by the United Nations, and are currently being banned in a growing number of States.

The EU plays a key role in the protection of fundamental rights and should take actions to fight against all inhuman practices. The Commission should propose a directive adding conversion practices to the list of euro-crimes and/or amend the ongoing directive on equality (2008) to include a ban on these practices.

All member states should introduce a ban on conversion practices or review their current ones. Check and sign the initiative in the European Commission's register here.