Government 'committed' to ending practice of gay conversion therapy

The Gay Health Network said: "Religious organisations offering to ‘pray away’ a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity towards more heteronormative behaviours are operating outside the professional sphere completely."

Minister for Children, Equality Disability Integration and Youth, Roderic O’Gorman, said that the Government is committing to ending the practice of conversion therapy. Photo: Gareth Chaney / Collins

Research into legislation on a ban on conversion therapy will be published in 2022, the Children's Minister says.

Conversion therapy refers to any form of treatment proposed to change a person's sexual orientation or to suppress a person's gender identity and a cross-party all-island coalition calling for it to be legally banned launched in April.