‘This has been a long road’: relief and excitement as NSW ban on gay conversion practices comes into effect
‘You’re not broken. You do not need fixing,’ attorney general says in welcoming legislation that makes LGBTQ+ conversion practices punishable by jail time
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Chris Csabs started going through so-called “conversion practices” at 16 years old. “I was extremely distressed about being gay and I went … to ask for help,” he said. He was then moved interstate to participate in a conversion course, exorcisms and counselling. But the damage inflicted had started well before that.
“What makes a 16-year-old seek that out?” Csabs said. “It was because I’d been doused in an ideology – that we now know underpins all conversion practices – that told me from a very, very young age that LGBT people are broken and that they are disordered and need to be fixed.”
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