This has flown under my radar, but the Norwegian parliament voted to ban conversion therapy on December 12, and the ban was approved 85-15. The ban makes it illegal to try to change someones sexual orientation or gender identity through medicine, alternative medicine, and religious methods among other things. The maximum penalty is 3 years of jail, 6 years in serious cases.
Source: Forbud mot konverteringsterapi vedtatt i Stortinget (article in Norwegian)
Good! Norway also restricted the Jehovah’s Witnesses from getting funding over some of their abusive religious practices .This includes shunning or abandoning children over not believing in the religion and not allowing their members to freely associate with non members. Iow they aren’t considered an official religion . Norway gives money to official religions .
Norway is doing better than the USA over restricting abusive religious practices
“The ban makes it illegal to try to change someones {…} gender identity through medicine”
Eh? Does that mean surgery for transgender people is illegal? It’s unclear.
Good work Norway!
@2 sonofrojblake: No, it is not unclear. Surgery for a trans person aligns their bodily characteristics with their gender. It does not change the gender.
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>Eh? Does that mean surgery for transgender people is illegal? It’s unclear.
Surgery doesn’t “change someones {…} gender identity through medicine.” And you know it.