Conversion therapy is the practice of attempting to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity. As of September 2022, fifteen countries have bans on conversion therapy, five of them ban the practice by any person: Canada, Ecuador, France, Germany, and Malta; three ban its practice by medical professionals only; Brazil, India, and Taiwan; another seven: Argentina, Chile, Fiji, Nauru, Samoa, Switzerland, and Uruguay have indirect bans in that diagnoses based solely on sexual orientation or gender identity are banned without specifically banning conversion therapy, this effectively amounts to a ban on health professionals since they would not generally engage in therapy without a diagnosis. In addition, some jurisdictions within the United States, Australia, and Spain also ban co