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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 ...
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.
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]
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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]
Together, they’ve helped 20 states pass conversion therapy bans for minors by licensed professionals; an additional 100 laws have passed on the local level. "It's been incredible," he says ...