Banning 'Conversion Therapy'

<b>This book looks at why and how states should legally ban LGBTQ+ 'conversion therapy'.</b>Few states have legislated against the practice with many currently considering its legal ban. <br/><br/><i>Banning 'Conversion Therapy'</i>brings together leading academics legal and medical practitioners policymakers and activists to illuminate the legislative and non-legislative steps that are required to protect individuals from the harms of 'conversion therapy' in different contexts. <br/><br/>The book considers how best to address this complex and interdisciplinary legal problem which cuts across human rights law criminal law family law and socio-legal studies and which represents one of the key contemporary problems of LGBTQ+ equality and national and international human rights activism.