It employs various approaches, from talk therapy and medication, to aversion therapy that attempts to condition a person's behaviour by causing them discomfort through things like electric shocks when they're exposed to specific stimuli. What is it?Ĭonversion therapy is a practice that aims to change an individual's sexual orientation to heterosexual or gender identity to cisgender, which means identifying with the sex assigned to them at birth. But the frustration that Alberta hasn't done so has prompted one Alberta city to take its own stand. In fact, only a handful of provinces have banned it outright. Duration 2:10 Alberta's United Conservative government says it does not condone conversion therapy.
