Canada’s 2022 criminalization of conversion “therapy” through Bill C-4 was a landmark achievement in protecting 2S/LGBTQIA+ communities. However, despite the legal ban, conversion practices persist across the country. Survivors continue to face barriers in accessing…

CBRC worked with Egale Canada to produce a legal and policy analysis of the federal law (Bill C-4) and other anti-conversion therapy legislation and policy. The report identifies barriers and gaps in preventing conversion practices in Canada, informs supplementary…

Comprised of 17 stories written by survivors of conversion therapy (including CBRC’s SOGIECE/CP Prevention & Survivor Support Coordinator, Jordan Sullivan), and a foreword by Garrard Conley, Shame-Sex Attraction: Survivors’ Stories of Conversion Therapy reveals the wide-ranging diversity…

CBRC’s Learning Course on Conversion “Therapy” Practices in Canada focuses on understanding conversion practices (in light of the federal law), and their impact on 2S/LGBTQIA+ people. 

A four-part blog series for practitioners and service providers on working with survivors of conversion “therapy” practices and change efforts. Includes contributions from interviews with mental health practitioners and from those with lived experience (survivors),…

This book considers the appropriate responses to the medical, legal, moral, and social issues posed by the practice of ‘conversion therapy’, bringing together leading academics, legal and medical practitioners, policymakers, and activists. It includes a…

We are approaching the second anniversary of the federal law around conversion therapy, but there is still work to be done. A new website is aiming to do just that. Jordan Sullivan with the Community-Based…

The harmful and discredited practice was banned two years ago. But the work for survivors and for LGBTQ2S+ communities across the country is far from over.