New Zealand bill to ban LGBTQ conversion practices receives record 100,000 submissions

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : It was close to five times the number of submissions received on the bill legalising same-sex marriage in 2013.
42% : The government received a total of 106,700 submissions on the bill, which will make it a crime to conduct conversion practices - or attempting to change someone's sexuality or gender identity.
36% : The United Nations independent expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity found conversion practices caused "significant loss of self-esteem, anxiety, depressive syndrome, social isolation, intimacy difficulty, self-hatred, shame and guilt, sexual dysfunction, suicidal ideation and suicide attempts and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder."

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