There is still widespread opposition to the rights of queer Africans in many countries. It is rooted in the rejection of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer considering them as needing to be cured, or repaired to gain their presumed heterosexual identities,' says Farise. 'All of them really depict any and all treatments, practices, or sustained efforts that aim to suppress or change a person's sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. More simply put, it means trying to force people who identify as LGBTQI+ to conform to a heterosexual identity. because their sexual orientation or gender identity do not fall under what is perceived by certain persons as a desirable norm', says Victor Madrigal-Borloz, the United Nations Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
But what are conversion practices? It can include 'beatings, rape, electrocution, forced medication, isolation and confinement, forced nudity, verbal offence and humiliation and other acts of physical, psychological, and sexual abuse'.
