Deputies and senators agreed on Tuesday on the joint drafting of a bill to ban "conversion therapy", practices aimed at imposing heterosexuality on lesbian, gay, bi and trans (LGBT) people, according to parliamentary sources.
The text carried by the majority in the wake of the deputy LREM Laurence Vanceunebrock aims to strengthen the criminal response against "these acts of another age", according to the boss of "walkers" in the Assembly, Christophe Castaner .
The old “difficult to apprehend” offenses
The joint joint committee (CMP) bringing together deputies and senators has enacted the creation of a specific offense to more easily confuse the authors of these conversion therapies.
This offense will be punished by two years' imprisonment and a fine of 30,000 euros.
The penalties may increase to three years' imprisonment and a fine of 45,000 euros in the event of aggravating circumstances.
Conversion therapy is already punishable via a large number of offenses but these are sometimes "difficult to apprehend", the LREM group stressed to the Assembly, in a press release.
The extent of the phenomenon not yet assessed
If the text had been the subject of a unanimous vote in the Assembly on October 6, it had not been the same in the Senate where the bill had however been widely voted.
305 senators were in favor of the bill, 28 against, all from the Les Républicains group, including their leader Bruno Retailleau.
There is no national survey in France to assess the extent of the phenomenon of conversion therapy, which can take a wide variety of forms.
During a parliamentary mission in 2019, Laurence Vanceunebrock and the Insoumis Bastien Lachaud referred to "a hundred recent cases", being alarmed at "the increase in reports".
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