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Queensland becomes first Australian state to ban gay conversion therapy

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Queensland has become the first state in Australia to criminalise gay conversion therapy, after state politicians voted to make the “highly destructive and unethical” practice illegal.

“Being LGBTIQ is not an affliction or disease that requires medical treatment,” the state’s Health Minister, Steven Miles, said in parliament Thursday.

“No treatment or practice can change a person’s sexual attraction or experience of gender.”

Under the Health Legislation Amendment Bill, health…



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