{"id":34564,"date":"2021-07-30T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T01:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/30\/no-place-in-modern-new-zealand-government-signals-conversion-practices-ban"},"modified":"2021-07-30T10:00:02","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T01:00:02","slug":"no-place-in-modern-new-zealand-government-signals-conversion-practices-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34564","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No place in modern New Zealand\u2019: government signals conversion practices ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proposed legislation would make it an offence to perform conversion practices on anyone aged under 18<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand has introduced legislation to ban conversion practices, saying the practice is harmful and has \u201cno place in modern New Zealand\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Conversion therapy refers to the practice, often by religious groups, of trying to \u201ccure\u201d people of their sexuality, gender expression, or LGBTQI identity.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/30\/no-place-in-modern-new-zealand-government-signals-conversion-practices-ban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proposed legislation would make it an offence to perform conversion practices on anyone aged under 18New Zealand has introduced legislation to ban conversion practices, saying the practice is harmful and has \u201cno place in modern New Zealand\u201d.Conversion &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,72,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-lgbt-rights","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34565,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34564\/revisions\/34565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}