Conversion Therapy

Recently, the National Medical Commission (NMC) has written to all State Medical Councils banning conversion therapy and calling it a “professional misconduct”.

• The NMC was following a Madras High Court directive to issue an official notification listing conversion therapy as a wrong, under the Indian Medical Council (Professional Conduct, Etiquettes and Ethics) Regulations, 2002.

About Conversion Therapy: Conversion or reparative therapy is an intervention aimed at changing the sexual orientation or gender identity of an individual.

• It employs the use of psychiatric treatment, drugs, exorcism or even violence to make the individual a heterosexual.
• It also includes efforts to change the core identity of ....