Legality of counseling to dissuade youth from homosexuality in Canada 2021, by age
At the beginning of 2021, more than one-third of Canadians (38 percent) felt that advising parents wishing to discourage their 15-year-old son from engaging in homosexual activities should be legal. This proportion was higher among older people (44.4 percent of those over 55), than among those under 34 (31.5 percent).
In Canada, as of the end of 2021, the law prohibiting conversion therapy criminalizes, among other things, the provision, promotion or advertising of conversion therapy.
Conversion therapy is a practice that aims to change a person's sexual orientation to heterosexual, change their gender identity to cisgender, or change their gender expression to match the sex they were assigned at birth.
In Canada, as of the end of 2021, the law prohibiting conversion therapy criminalizes, among other things, the provision, promotion or advertising of conversion therapy.
Conversion therapy is a practice that aims to change a person's sexual orientation to heterosexual, change their gender identity to cisgender, or change their gender expression to match the sex they were assigned at birth.
