Hoshi, Eddy de Pretto and even Marie Papillon call on the government and parliamentarians to ban these “conversion therapies” which want to “cure homosexuality”. Currently, a legal vagueness surrounds them.
Since yesterday, Thursday April 29, 2021, Marie Papillon, Hoshi and Eddy De Pretto have lent a hand to the “Rien à curé” collective and to the deputy Laurence Vanceunebrock, in their fight to fight against “conversion therapy”. By calling Christophe Castaner on social networks, they expect the former Minister of the Interior to establish a date for the examination of the bill of the LREM member of the Allier.
Conversion therapy aims to change a person’s sexual orientation so that they become heterosexual. This practice is based on the principle that homosexuality and transidentity are diseases that must be treated. Having their origins in the 1950s, in the United States, these therapies can be religious, medical or societal and are still legal in France.
Fortunately, political members began to sound the alarm bells in 2015, when a report from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights called for a ban on these conversion therapies.
To read also: “Therapies of conversion”: Laurence Vanceunebrock fights to put an end to these practices aiming to modify the sexual orientation
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Why has it been blocking for a year?
Aiming to ban these practices, the bill tabled by Laurence Vanceunebrock, in June 2020, remains pending. The deputy confided in August 2020 to aufeminin “A real fear, because the number of ‘internships’ is increasing every year. Since the 1990s and 2000s, these ‘therapies’ have spread very quickly. It is therefore important to legislate.” A legal vacuum hovers for the moment around these practices: “There are offenses that revolve around these ‘therapies’: willful violence, abuse of weakness, harassment … But the problem is that they are not prohibited. Another concern, there is There are no figures that represent these ‘conversions’, indeed, because the offense does not exist. And we know that everything works by statistics in France and therefore how to write these last without offenses in the Penal Code. ” she specifies.
The establishment of a date to consider the bill has still not been set, but according to the Huffington Post, Laurence Vanceunebrock will “put the pressure” to analyze the text and finally include it on the agenda of the National Assembly. Hopefully the calls from personalities help speed up a parliamentary calendar disrupted by the coronavirus.
Lea Lecuyer
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