Netherlands criminalizes conversion therapy with up to 2 years imprisonment

Conversion therapy practices inflict severe psychological and physical damage on individuals subjected to them, often resulting in lasting harm.

In a vote of 57 to 18, the Dutch Upper House has made conversion therapy a criminal offense, joining a growing chorus of nations that have concluded the practice causes measurable harm and warrants legal prohibition. The law imposes fines and imprisonment on those who attempt to alter another person's sexual orientation or gender identity — a practice the medical community has long condemned but never fully extinguished. The Netherlands acts at a moment when the United States moves in a different direction, with its courts increasingly treating such bans as threats to free expression rather th

Netherlands criminalizes conversion therapy with up to 2 years imprisonment

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