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Paul McAuley

Ireland vows to ban conversion therapy while UK 'continues to lag behind'

Ireland has vowed to finally ban conversion therapy by 2024.

The country is making moves to outlaw the cruel practice almost half a decade since the UK promised to do so. Equalities and integration minister Roderic O’Gorman has committed to bringing forward plans this year to ban the use of the discredited practice which aims to prejudice people's choices about gender change or sexual orientation.

Former LIPA student, Aodhán McGuire, has praised his family’s home country for the step towards LGBTQ+ equality.

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