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In June 2017, a bill to ban conversion therapy was introduced to the New York City Council. [201] The City Council passed (43–2) the ban on November 30. Mayor Bill de Blasio returned the bill unsigned on January 5, thus allowing it to become law.
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 ...
[2] [3] An increasing number of jurisdictions around the world have passed laws against conversion therapy. [4] Historically, conversion therapy was the treatment of choice for individuals who disclosed same-sex attractions or exhibited gender nonconformity, which were formerly assumed to be pathologies by the medical establishment. [3]
Practitioners are currently working in almost every U.S. state.
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.
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On March 28, 2019, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) introduced the Prohibition of Medicaid Funding for Conversion Therapy Act (H.R. 1981) in the House of Representatives with 83 cosponsors. [ 7 ] On June 27, 2019, Rep. Ted Lieu reintroduced the Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act (H.R. 3570) in the House of Representatives, [ 8 ] and Sen. Patty ...
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a major case over transgender health care for minors.The case focuses on Tennessee's ban on the treatment for minors in the state. The ...