Mental health bodies warn of 'horrendous effects' of conversion therapy on people

Dr Lorcan Martin, president of the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland: Conversion therapy 'is still going on and still causing harm to people'.

Three Irish healthcare bodies have signed an agreement renouncing conversion therapy as harmful and not supported by evidence, while warning of "horrendous effects" on people, at an event at Trinity College Dublin.

Conversion therapy is an umbrella term for therapies which assume some sexual orientations or gender identities are inferior to others and try to change or suppress them.