Brazilian judge approves gay conversion therapy amid furious backlash from LGBT rights campaigners

‘A judge in Brazil has approved the use of gay conversion therapy, amid a furious backlash from campaigners, psychologists and celebrities.
Federal judge Waldemar de Carvalho ruled that homosexuality could be considered a disease.
The Brasilia judge last week backed a controversial evangelical psychologist, Rozangela Justino, who wanted to ‘treat’ gay people with discredited and harmful sexual orientation conversion therapies.
The Federal Council of Psychology approved a resolution in 1999 prohibiting psychologists from treating homosexuality as a disease.

The council said the ruling “opens the dangerous possibility of the use of sexual reversion therapies” and would appeal the injunction.’
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