Percentage of the LBGTIQ population who have experienced a conversion practice (EU)

Date
June-Avgust 2023
Regions Surveyed
30

Full Survey Results

A total of 100.577 people aged 15 years or older who identify as LGBTIQ completed the online EU LGBTIQ Survey III in 30 countries, namely the 27 Member States and the candidate countries of Albania, North Macedonia and Serbia. The survey was conducted online from 2 June to 22 August 2023.

Question: "Have you experienced any of the interventions to change your sexual orientation and/or gender identity including: intervention by family members; prayer, religious ritual or religious counselling; psychological or psychiatric treatment; medication; physical violence (such as beatings); sexual violence; verbal abuse or humiliation; other?"

Yes
Survey Average (Unweighted)
27.7%
  1. 1. France
    18%
  2. 2. Italy
    18%
  3. 18%
  4. 4. Belgium
    20%
  5. 21%
  6. 6. Spain
    21%
  7. 7. Sweden
    21%
  8. 21%
  9. 9. Denmark
    22%
  10. 10. Slovenia
    23%
  11. 11. Croatia
    24%
  12. 12. Romania
    25%
  13. 13. Ireland
    26%
  14. 14. Malta
    26%
  15. 15. Germany
    28%
  16. 16. Poland
    29%
  17. 17. Latvia
    29%
  18. 18. Albania
    30%
  19. 19. Austria
    30%
  20. 20. Bulgaria
    31%
  21. 21. Finland
    31%
  22. 32%
  23. 23. Serbia
    32%
  24. 24. Hungary
    34%
  25. 25. Lithuania
    35%
  26. 37%
  27. 27. Cyprus
    37%
  28. 28. Estonia
    37%
  29. 29. Slovakia
    37%
  30. 30. Greece
    38%

Regions are ranked by the percentage of "support" responses out of the total responses (excluding participants who answered "don't know" or refused to answer).

Submitted by laliqueen