Thank you, Madam Chair.
My question is for Ms. Gendron from the Pour le droit des femmes du Québec organization.
Ms. Gendron, based on my understanding of your evidence and the evidence from Dr.x Cantor and other witnesses, you are in favour of the idea of prohibiting conversion therapy. That would be what the new clause 320.101 of the Criminal Code defines as follows:
320.101 ...conversion therapy means a practice, treatment or service designed to change a person’s sexual orientation to heterosexual or gender identity to cisgender, or to repress or reduce ... attraction...
However, practices, treatments and services for gender transition and the exploration and construction of identity are excluded. What is excluded is rather similar to what is prohibited. That's also what I have understood from the evidence, and it strikes me as a sort of contradiction.
Would your organization not be more at ease with the idea of adding an exclusion for honest non-interventionist conversations about gender transition and the exploration and development of identity?
What I am talking about is honest conversations that are not aimed at any intervention, as opposed to allowing certain practices, treatments and services.