Erika Hilton proposes PL that equates “gay cure” practice with torture

Last Tuesday, 17th, Erika Hilton presented a bill that equates sexual conversion therapies, known as the “gay cure”, with crimes of torture.

The PL was presented after the death of the Bolsonaro influencer Karol Ellerthe young woman was found dead on the 12th, in São Paulo, after announcing on her social networks that she was in the process of becoming heterosexual.

Furthermore, Érika, together with the Pastor Henrique Vieira It is Luciene Cavalcanteasked the Federal Public Ministry to launch an investigation against the Assembly of God Church of Rio Verde, in Goiás. The deputies accuse the church of promoting the practice of “gay cure”.

“LGBTQIA+ people are not sick. And a supposed mental health professional or religious leader who claims to be able to change someone’s sexual orientation is, in fact, only capable of carrying out a psychological beating until the victim denies himself,” wrote the deputy.

“We will not accept that LGBTQIA+ people continue to have their lives destroyed so that fundamentalists continue, with impunity, trying to adapt them to their prejudices”, he added.

In the proposal, the deputy states that sexual conversion treatments “These are true practices of torture and aggression against the entire LGBTQIA+ population, whose sexual orientation or gender designation are characteristics inherent to each subject, making it impossible to change”.

The deputy argued that Brazil has national standards and is part of international conventions “to combat and prevent torture”.

“The criminal conduct of ‘gay cure’ treatment must be equated with torture, therefore it must be curbed, as well as victims already subjected to such violence being widely investigated, so that lives are preserved”, continued.

“By definition, sexual conversion therapies can be characterized as torture, especially in circumstances with pain, physical and mental suffering inflicted on individuals subjected to the practice.”concluded.