Spain always surprises me

Valencia will fine therapies to correct sexual orientation and they are right

The plenary session of the Valencian Courts has approved the law of equality of LGTBI persons that prohibits therapies to correct orientation or gender identity. The Valencian Community will establish fines of 60,000 to 120,000 euros for these infractions and will provide legal advice, health care and social measures to hate victims of the LGTBI collective, whose rights will be recognized in the statute of the victim. The new law includes a general anti-discrimination clause that states that the Administrations may act ex officio, without need of complaint or complaint, against these therapies.

"Often, they call me parents of boys and girls when they learn that their children are gays or lesbians, to see if I can change their sexuality," says Antonio Ortega López, a psychologist and sex therapist. Ortega specializes in LGTBI psychology, but his work is the opposite of what some clients demand of their services. This doctor in Psychology from the Complutense University of Madrid values

the measure taken by the Valencian Parliament: "These therapies should be pursued that undermine human identity, respect and diversity."

"Nobody else has to live inside the closet, no one by age has to re-enter it, for all the people who have lived with fear or haven't been able to bear that reality we have the obligation to approve this law" Said Rosa Mustafá, deputy of the PSOE in the Cortes. The heated debate that has taken place in the plenary has concluded with the approval of the law with the support of all the groups except the PP, which has abstained. The new law also contemplates the creation of the Valencian LGTBI Council as citizen participation in rights and freedoms, and an orientation and counseling service is guaranteed to these people and their relatives.

Various associations have received the news of the approval of the Valencian law with open arms. "These therapies can cause irreparable psychological and physical damage to those subjected," explains Iago Blando, coordinator of the Arcópoli collective. Blando criticizes the "medicalization" of homosexuality in all its forms. From the association they warn that in Spain there are clinics that offer "reversion" services of sexuality that "charge around 300 euros for their services". "They are advertised as sexuality courses or as religious events, but in reality they are catalysts for the psychological destruction of the person," says the coordinator.

Spain is one of the countries that most supports that people can let themselves be carried away by their feelings, that don't discriminate against the LGBT community, because in many parts of the world they harass and hurt people for loving people of the same gender and Spain puts laws that benefit them so that they don't shut up and can defend themselves legally

There are many countries that also have laws in favor of the LGBT community but I always see news that Spain makes new laws that always improve the safety of people who are in the community, I do not know if there are countries that are the same as Spain, or only Spain but they are doing something very incredible and that is to value