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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 March 2017, the Colorado House of Representatives passed for the third time a ban on conversion therapy on minors, but got blocked for the third time in three years in the Colorado Senate. [74] [75] In December 2018, Denver introduced an ordinance banning conversion therapy on LGBT minors. The proposal passed council committee and floor ...
The Appleton Common Council passed a conversion therapy ban on January 22, 2020, by a 14–1 vote. [288] 70. [289] Allegheny County, Pennsylvania: February 11, 2020 February 14, 2020 Ordinance 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 ...
Lopez-Galloway has since founded a support network for fellow conversion-therapy survivors and helped pass a ban in his home state, Illinois. The Trevor Project’s new report is important because ...
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 ...
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Ashley believes that conversion therapy needs to disappear and that a formal ban improves the situation without fully solving the issue. [13] They cite the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto as an example of practices that were so bad, they served as a precedent to get conversion therapy banned in the province of Ontario. [12]
The Supreme Court refuses a Christian free-speech challenge to 22 states' laws banning 'conversion therapy,' which seeks to change a child's sexual orientation or gender identity.