Hon Dr AYESHA VERRALL (Associate Minister of Health): Conversion practices are harmful and degrading. That's why I'm proud to support this bill to prohibit conversion practices. Conversion practices are defined as "practices intended to change a person's sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression." Conversion practices are wrong because there's no good reason to seek to change someone's sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression—and besides which, you can't change these elements of a person's identity anyway.