Independent medico-legal specialists from 23 countries: ‘Conversion therapy is torture’

On 23 April, the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT) and the Independent Forensics Expert Group (IFEG) released a new statement that labels so-called “conversion therapy” as torture and “unscientific”, and calls for an immediate global ban on the practice. The statement, signed by 39 independent medico-legal specialists from 23 countries, notes that children and minors are especially vulnerable, and that survivors of so-called “conversion therapy” often suffer post-traumatic stress disorder as a result.
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Read more from the press release which includes the results of a global research.

Read here the full statement from 39 independent medico-legal specialists.