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The latest news about so-called reparative, conversion, and ex-gay therapy and the quest to outlaw it. Condemned by the American Psychiatric Association, ex-gay therapy is based on the belief that a person can be "cured" of their sexual attraction and that conversion from homosexuality to heterosexuality is possible. Proponents of the controversial treatment include the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality as well as Christian fundamentalist organizations. Various means of implementing this therapy include prayer groups, electroshock therapy, and training in gender behavior.
“We were told by pastors and Focus on the Family that we had to fix him. Instead, we taught him to hate himself. And when a child is dead, you don’t ever get to repair that,” Linda Robertson said of her late son.
The national organization dedicated to supporting friends and families of LGBTQ+ folks is betting on people’s intellectual humility.
Here's what to know about the case as oral arguments tee off the high court's next term.
Lawmakers are asking the high court to uphold states’ rights to ban the dangerous practice.
LGBTQ+ youth in the state will be protected from this damaging and discredited intervention.
The practice has been widely condemned as harmful and ineffective.
The singer, drag artist, and host of Drag Race Brasil is also fighting to end conversion therapy.
After experiencing firsthand the carnage that anti-LGBTQ+ attacks can cause, Luis Ruiz and Angel Colon are attacking what they've dubbed the "identity pandemic."
State laws protecting minors from the discredited and harmful practice haven't stopped it completely.
He's endorsed conversion therapy, pushed to criminalize gay sex, condemned same-sex marriage, and likened being queer to pedophilia and bestiality.
The far-right extremist group Alliance Defending Freedom brings a case that threatens to undo protections for LGBTQ+ minors from dangerous and abusive conversion therapy.
Conversion therapy has been restricted in about 20 states.
The legislative ban on conversion therapy for minors strengthens a ban enacted by a licensing board.
Democrats hold seven of nine seats on the legislative body but couldn’t pass a ban on the harmful practice.
While opponents say the issue is about protecting LGBTQ+ youth, Wisconsin Republicans claim they are fighting a bureaucratic turf war.
Activists voiced concerns that the proposed bill was too watered-down.
The new legislation will include treatment directed at trans people, reversing last year's announcement that this would be excluded.
It's the second time Republicans prevented the ban from taking effect.
Irish Equality Minister Roderic O'Gorman is committed to having the practice banned by 2024.
He says he was told that going straight was the best way to reconnect with his conservative Christian family.
