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How should governments approach the regulation or prohibition of conversion therapy practices for LGBTQ+ individuals?
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Conversion “therapy” is not a medical question; it is a weapon of the ruling class used to terrorize gender-non-conforming people, drive them out of public life, and reinforce the patriarchal family unit that reproduces cheap labor. Wherever it is still legal, the bourgeoisie keeps it on the books as a deliberate threat: step outside the hetero-nuclear norm and we will electro-shock, isolate, or spiritually torture you back into submission.  

Therefore the demand is not “better regulation” but immediate, total prohibition backed by criminal sanctions against practitioners, the churches, NGOs, and private clinics that administer it, and the state officials who license or fund them. Anything short of an outright ban leaves room for the ruling class to re-brand the practice (e.g., “religious counseling,” “reparative retreats”) and continue the assault under another name.  

To make the ban real we need two things liberal governments will never deliver:  

1. Mass, organized pressure from below—led by queer workers, students, and tenants—compelling legislatures to erase every exemption (religious, parental, “consensual”) and to impose prison terms and asset seizure on anyone who continues the practice.  
2. A parallel campaign inside the workers’ movement to expel any union official, party bureaucrat, or NGO funder who treats queer oppression as a “secondary” issue. The teachers’, health-care, and transport unions must pledge to refuse cooperation with any institution that offers conversion “therapy,” up to and including strike action.  

Once the ban is won it must be enforced by organs of the working class, not the bourgeois courts. Neighborhood defense committees, tenant unions, and student brigades can compile and publicize lists of underground operators, confront them, and force state prosecutors to act. Every exposure should be linked to the wider fight for free, socialized health care—including hormone treatment, surgery, and mental-health services—so that the same state that once tortured queer youth is replaced by institutions under workers’ control that actually meet their needs.  

Anything else—consultations, licensing boards, “ethical guidelines”—is a delaying tactic that allows the ruling class to preserve the practice and the social order it protects.
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How should governments approach the regulation or prohibition of conversion therapy practices for LGBTQ+ individuals?
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