A political roadblock that imperiled NDP MPP Cheri DiNovo’s landmark legislation to ban transgender “conversion therapy” has been cleared.

“It’s fantastic,” DiNovo said Thursday.

“This means that right away the message gets sent to children across the province that what many of them are still undergoing isn’t okay and that . . . we are all on their side . . . all political parties,” the Parkdale—High Park MPP said.

DiNovo’s Affirming Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Act will ban doctors from billing OHIP for counselling gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered patients to change sexual orientation or gender identity.

“We’ll get this done for Pride and that’s fantastic,” she said of Toronto’s massive annual LBGT celebrations that begin June 19.

“It’s all going to be done in one day. It will come back next Thursday and it will be passed.”

Her comments came after the NDP, which had been holding up DiNovo’s bill because it was parcelled for passage with unrelated Liberal and Progressive Conservative legislation, agreed to end the political wrangling.

Government house leader Yasir Naqvi, who on Wednesday accused NDP Leader Andrea Horwath of “single-handedly obstructing” the bill, hailed the end of the impasse.

“This is good news. I’m really happy to see that all three parties were able to work together,” said Naqvi, adding media coverage of the kerfuffle may have helped move things along.

“It motivates everybody to come together,” he said.

Horwath issued a statement saying she was “thrilled to see the house unanimously agree to move Bill 77 forward.”

“Today we came one step closer to ending the harmful practice of conversion therapy in this province. I look forward to the bill getting swift passage through the legislature,” the NDP leader said.

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Both Naqvi and Progressive Conservative house leader Steve Clark, who supported the agreement allowing all the bills to pass, blamed the New Democrats for the standoff.

As part of the accord, a Tory law tackling Lyme disease and Liberal bills proclaiming June Bike Month and creating Terry Fox Day and Ontario Flag Day will also be called for third and final reading before the house rises for the summer next week.

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