Debate contribution: Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill: Second Stage
Debate contribution by Mrs Diane Dodds on .
- MLA
- Mrs Diane Dodds
- Party at the time
- Democratic Unionist Party
- Date
- 15 September 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Private Members' Business
- Heading
- Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill: Second Stage
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5706237
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I do not agree, and I do not agree for a very specific reason. Look at clause 1, which states that a person commits an offence if that person:
"carries out conversion therapy in relation to another person ("the victim")"
— or —
"has the intent of changing or suppressing the sexual orientation or gender identity of the victim".
We do not know what "intent" or "suppressing" means; we do not know how that is qualified; and we do not know what the threshold is.
85 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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