'I kept thinking that there was something wrong with me': Move to ban conversion therapy moves step closer

Children's Minister Roderic O'Gorman: 'Conversion practices are cruel processes, rooted in shame and stigma.'

The Government has moved a step closer to banning conversion therapy after a study from Trinity College called the practice "traumatising", "destructive", "anxiety-provoking", "horrendous", "harmful" and "damaging".

In one example in the Government-commissioned study from the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Trinity College Dublin, a participant says of conversion therapy: "It left me with trauma, from which I am still attempting to heal, it destroyed my self-worth, my sense of self and my health."