This week the House went through the committee stages of the Conversion Practices Prohibition Legislation Bill, a law change which it will almost certainly pass next week.įor those who do not know, 'conversion practices' is a catchall phrase which covers a range of workshops, counselling programmes and other therapies which are intended to convince a person who identifies as gay, or of a different gender than the one they were assigned at birth, to change or suppress their self-identity.