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# Spain proposes to fine conversion therapy practitioners
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/spain-proposes-to-fine-conversion-therapy-practitioners/
- Published: 2021-02-07T15:15:19.000Z
- Updated: 2021-02-07T08:46:39.000Z
- Description: Spain has announced proposals to fine those who are found practicing LGBTQ+ conversion therapy, with the country’s minister of equality, Irene Montero, supporting the notion.
- Author: Rachel Badham
- Tags: News, Politics, ban conversion therapy, Boris Johnson, LGBTQ, LGBTQ+ rights, Spain

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/conversiontherapyyban-1.jpg)

**Spain** has announced proposals to fine those who are found practicing LGBTQ+ conversion therapy, with the country’s minister of equality, **Irene Montero**, supporting the notion. According to [*EuroWeekly*](https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2021/02/03/e150000-fines-for-anyone-offering-gay-conversion-therapy-in-spain/?ref=scenemag.co.uk), the drafted legislation defines draft defines conversion therapy as *“the practice of aversion, conversion or counter-conditioning methods, programmes and therapies”* which aim to to modify or change a person’s sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. Those who subject others to it could face €150,000 fines.

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/irene-montero-1.jpg)

Irene Montero, the Spanish minister of equality, supports the proposed law

A handful of other pro-LGBTQ+ laws have also been proposed, including one which could see any professionals or businesses face fines of up to €10,000 if found to have discriminated against someone on account of their, *“sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression or sexual characteristics.”* Laws protecting intersex citizens are also in the making, with the aim to prohibit *“genital modification operations”* on intersex newborns, *“except in cases where medical indications require otherwise”* to protect their health.

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/conversion_therapy_ban-1.jpg)

Meanwhile in the **UK**, little action is being taken to outlaw LGBTQ+ conversion therapy. **Boris Johnson** promised he would do so in 2018, and later called the practice *“abhorrent”*, but it still remains legal. A 2018 [study ](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49344152?ref=scenemag.co.uk)found 2% of the UK’s LGBTQ+ community had undergone the controversial form of treatment, leaving many suffering from depression and trauma. Conservative MP, **Alicia Kearns**, recently called on the UK government to ensure that any future laws created against LGBTQ+ conversion therapy will be trans inclusive, [saying](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/tory-mp-calls-for-trans-conversion-therapy-ban/): *“Any ban must include not only conversion therapy to change sexual orientation, but also attempts to prevent, against the individual’s wishes, a gender transition.”*