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| Region | Thailand |
| Issue | Conversion therapy |
| Status | Not banned |
| Start Date | (unknown) |
| End Date | (none) |
| Description | In Thailand, conversion therapy is not banned, and there are reports of involuntary and coercive practices targeting LGBTQI+ individuals. According to a 2023 Human Rights report by the US Department of State, Thai government agencies have been accused of forcing conversion therapy on LGBTQI+ people, especially children and juveniles or forcing gender non-conforming AMAB people into military service or in the deep south, into becoming monks. Additionally, some individuals born female have experienced "corrective" rape or forced childbirth. |
| Sources | https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/thailand/ - Section 6, paragraph 37 |
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| Description | In Thailand, conversion therapy is not banned, and there are reports of involuntary and coercive practices targeting LGBTQI+ individuals. According to a 2022 Human Rights report by the United States Department of State, Thai government agencies have been accused of forcing conversion therapy on LGBTQI+ people, especially children and juveniles. Marriage Equality Network reports that conversion therapy is usually forced onto individuals by their family or religious communities. Individuals born male have been forced into military training or monkhood, and some individuals born female have experienced "corrective" rape or forced childbirth. Intersex Thailand reports that some intersex people were forced into irreversible nonconsensual genital surgeries. | In Thailand, conversion therapy is not banned, and there are reports of involuntary and coercive practices targeting LGBTQI+ individuals. According to a 2023 Human Rights report by the US Department of State, Thai government agencies have been accused of forcing conversion therapy on LGBTQI+ people, especially children and juveniles or forcing gender non-conforming AMAB people into military service or in the deep south, into becoming monks. Additionally, some individuals born female have experienced "corrective" rape or forced childbirth. |
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| Sources | https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/thailand/ | https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/thailand/ - Section 6, paragraph 37 |
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| Description | Not criminalized in Thailand. | In Thailand, conversion therapy is not banned, and there are reports of involuntary and coercive practices targeting LGBTQI+ individuals. According to a 2022 Human Rights report by the United States Department of State, Thai government agencies have been accused of forcing conversion therapy on LGBTQI+ people, especially children and juveniles. Marriage Equality Network reports that conversion therapy is usually forced onto individuals by their family or religious communities. Individuals born male have been forced into military training or monkhood, and some individuals born female have experienced "corrective" rape or forced childbirth. Intersex Thailand reports that some intersex people were forced into irreversible nonconsensual genital surgeries. |
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| Sources | https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/thailand/ | |
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| Value | (REMOVED) | Not banned |
| Special Status | Ambiguous | Not banned |
| Description | Unknown. | Not criminalized in Thailand. |
| Sources | No |
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| Value | Not banned | (REMOVED) |
| Special Status | Not banned | Ambiguous |
| Description | Conversion therapy ban pending. | Unknown. |
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| Value | (REMOVED) | Not banned |
| Special Status | Ambiguous | Not banned |
| Description | not clear. | No |
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| Value | Not banned | (REMOVED) |
| Special Status | Not banned | Ambiguous |
| Description | as far as I know. | not clear. |
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| Value | (REMOVED) | Not banned |
| Special Status | Ambiguous | Not banned |
| Description | No information on this. | as far as I know. |
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| Value | Not banned | (REMOVED) |
| Special Status | Not banned | Ambiguous |
| Description | No | No information on this. |