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Doctors ban gay conversion therapy as risks 'mental damage'

Israeli doctors have banned gay conversion therapy as it risks 'mental damage' [Courtesy]

A ban on conversion therapy by Israeli doctors will help protect gay people from treatments that claim to make them straight, but more work needs to be done with religious groups that support controversial ‘cures’, activists said on Wednesday.

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