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Conversion therapy is the pseudoscientific practice of attempting to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity. [1] As of December 2023, twenty-eight countries have bans on conversion therapy, fourteen of them ban the practice by any person: Belgium, [2] Canada, Cyprus, Ecuador, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Malta, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal and Spain; seven ban ...
In July 2021, an executive order was signed and implemented banning conversion therapy state-wide. Some cities within Minnesota had previously banned conversion therapy by local ordinances. [2] In Spring 2023, the state passed a law banning conversion therapy [3] [4] and a "trans refuge" law, protecting access to gender-affirming care. [5]
Mar. 13—CONCORD — Social conservatives who invite professional counselors to talk with people genuinely unsure about their gender identity are on a collision course with fierce opponents of ...
High school students rally at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul, Minn., urging lawmakers to protect LGBTQ Minnesotans and youth from the effects of conversion therapy, on March 21, 2019.
A ban on conversion therapy was approved 13–2 on February 11, 2020. [290] [291] Final approval was granted three days later. [289] 71. [292] Covington, Kentucky: March 24, 2020 March 24, 2020 Ordinance The Covington City Council passed a conversion therapy ban on March 24, 2020, by a unanimous vote of 5–0. [293] 72. [294] Tallahassee ...
Parents can legally force their LGBTQ children into conversion therapy in all but 14 states, and for those LGBTQ teens living in the other 36 states, conversion therapy is a very real fear.
The book is about conversion therapy for transgender people and studies how they can be legally banned, and what impact this ban would have on the countries which would decide to implement these laws. Ashley believes that conversion therapy needs to disappear and that a formal ban improves the situation without fully solving the issue. [13]
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