Transfeminine bioethicist law professor Florence Ashley discusses the support for and issues in bans that bans transgender conversion therapy in their book Banning Transgender Conversion Practices: A Legal and Policy Analysis. In the book, Ashley explains how and why we must understand policies against trans conversion therapy, or its varying names, to distance the original term's negative reputation. In each chapter they successfully “guide jurists, policy-maker[s], healthcare professionals, scholars, advocates in their thinking about how to ban conversion therapy more effectively” (17). In the first chapter, Ashley defines trans conversion practices and explains to readers how to identify them. Ontario was the first Canadian province to ban trans conversion therapy, which led the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) to close its gender identity clinic for youth a few months after Bill 77, the Affirming Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Act, passed in 2015 (33–34). Clarke Institute has...

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