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More Country-Equo proposes to punish with prison sentence those who carry out conversion therapies on LGTBI people
Más País-Equo has registered in Congress an amendment to the Trans Law with which it intends to tighten the prohibition of conversion therapies against LGTBI people. The norm considers these interventions a “very serious” infraction fined between 10,001 and 150,000 euros, while Más País-Equo claims to convert its practice into a crime and punish the people who carry out the praise with a prison sentence of one to four years and fine from eight to twenty-four months.
The amendment calls these therapies Efforts to Change Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity or Expression (ECOSIEG). And it defines them as any advice, practice or treatment that is based on the premise that certain identities are “less desirable” than others or have the objective of “modifying, diminishing, repressing, discouraging or suppressing” sexual orientation, gender identity, a person’s sexual desire or romantic feelings.
The proposals lower the penalty in the event that the therapy is carried out “recklessly” and increase it to the higher penalty in degree when directed towards minors or vulnerable people. It also specifies that no complaint from the injured person will be necessary and that their consent or that of their legal representatives “will be irrelevant” to attribute criminal responsibility.
The formations consider that in Spain conversion therapies are carried out towards LGTBI people in a “systematic way and away from public scrutiny”, but “they have not diminished” despite the approval in recent years of regional laws that already provide for fines. For this reason, they believe that economic sanctions “to stop perpetrators supported by influential networks and with large economic capital”, they cite in the amendment, “is not effective, sufficient or useful”.
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