Amnesty International Australia
Defending Human Rights
Conversion practices, also known as Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Change Efforts (SOGICE), are formal therapeutic and informal practices which target LGBTQA+ people of faith with the false ideology that their sexual orientation, gender identity or gender and sexual expression can be changed or suppressed. While these practices are commonly misrepresented in the media as …
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Amnesty International Australia, SOGICE Survivors and Ending Conversion Practices WA have written to SA and WA government representatives.
As the Victorian Legislative Council debates the Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Bill this week, I would like you to know that far from being aberrant, Queerness is beautiful. We do not need to be prayed for. In fact, we as Queer people, demand that the public see us as complex and multi-faceted human beings …
Amnesty International Australia congratulates the Victorian Parliament’s lower house for passing a world-leading bill to end harmful LGBTQA+ conversion practices*. The legislation was developed after extensive consultation with survivors of conversion practices and represents the gold standard in addressing these harmful and totally unnecessary practices. “What this Bill recognises is that there is nothing wrong …
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