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The Movement for Homosexual Integration and Liberation (Movilh) accused the undersecretary of Human Rights, Lorena Recabarren, of defending the therapies of conversion to the sexual condition or gender identity.
“The Undersecretary of Human Rights, Lorena Recabarren, wants the Zamudio Law to allow in certain cases therapies to ‘cure’ homosexuality or transsexuality ”, accused Movilh on Monday night.
The NGO published a video of Recabarren’s presentation before the Senate Human Rights Commission, where they discussed an indication from Senator Adriana Muñoz, who sought to prohibit all types of conversion therapy.
In the registry published by Movilh, the undersecretary questions that the indication is “absolute” and that it even prohibits all therapies, even when the person submits voluntarily.
“The way it is written here is in absolute terms, and could be applied in cases where there might be the consent of the person to be treated. There we would have a problem, because we would go against the will of a person and therefore, a priori, bearing in mind the prohibition of conversion therapies, in the sense of forcing, that they consider, support, promote therapies that oblige the people to try to change the inner conviction ”,
“In the way it is written, this could happen that a person who did want or was available, had the will to do so, and we would be saying per se that these types of acts are discriminatory, so it seems to me that the indication is not adequate ”, he adds.
After the video was broadcast, the Movilh requested the resignation of the authority, who responded on his Twitter account.
Since the undersecretary @LoreRecabarrenS She says that she did not say what she said (what a cheek!), we publish a video where she refuses an absolute ban on therapies to “cure” homosexuality or transsexuality and validates “treatments” when they are volunteers. https://t.co/FYyYZYDMdL
– Movilh Chile (@Movilh) September 15, 2020
Recabarren indicated that “I have never said that conversion therapies can be voluntary”, explaining that he only suggested improving the wording of an indication and that “the Commission agreed to prepare a new proposal, and it was pending a vote.”
Regarding some comments on this social network, within the framework of the discussion of the bill that reforms the Anti-Discrimination Law, I reiterate my deepest rejection of conversion therapies, which I consider degrading treatments (the Commission session is public).
– Lorena Recabarren Silva (@LoreRecabarrenS) September 14, 2020
“I reiterate my deepest rejection of conversion therapies, which I consider degrading treatments, “he added.
In the Commission, after the extract published by Movilh, the undersecretary maintains that the “wording is not adequate” and that “another formula should be sought”, after which the president of the Commission, Juan Ignacio Latorre, proposes that any modification remain pending, because Muñoz was not present.
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