Earlier this month, Parliament’s committees hosted a public hearing in response to the European Citizens’ Initiative calling for EU-wide action to end so-called “conversion practices”. Now, this topic has been introduced as a plenary debate. Conversion practices, which target LGBTQ+ people and have been described by the UN as a form of torture, claim to change, repress or suppress a person’s sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. Organisers of this initiative describe them as