If you’ve experienced conversion practice, you can complain to the Human Rights Commission, or go to the police.
The Human Rights Commission can provide free and confidential mediation between you and the other person. The goal of this is to remedy the harm and stop it from happening again.
If mediation doesn’t work, you can go to the Human Rights Review Tribunal. For this, you can apply for free legal representation from the Director of the Office of Human Rights Proceedings. The Tribunal has the same rights as a court. They can order the other person to pay you compensation or issue a formal apology.
The other person won’t go to jail or get a criminal conviction if you go through the Human Rights Commission.
If you go to the police and the other party is found guilty, they will get a criminal conviction. To be found guilty, the court will need to find that conversion practice happened, and:
the person caused you serious harm. This harm could be physical, emotional, or psychological, or
you were under 18 years old, or didn’t have the capacity to understand how the conversion practice would impact you when it took place.