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A majority of the United States population lives in jurisdictions that have banned conversion therapy on minors, although significant gaps in protections remain. Opponents of conversion therapy argue that it is abusive to attempt to change an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity and that the practice is based in pseudoscience.
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 ...
Michigan becomes the 22nd state to outlaw conversion therapy, which state lawmakers defined as any practice or treatment by a mental health professional that seeks to change an individual’s ...
Practitioners are currently working in almost every U.S. state.
California became the first state to ban conversion therapy for minors in 2012. Since then, 21 additional states plus Washington, D.C., have enacted similar bans , which apply to both gender ...
Reverted to version as of 21:21, 12 January 2024 (UTC) Pennsylvania prohibited the use of state funds, not conversion therapy in general. 05:02, 13 January 2024: 512 × 324 (1.02 MB) GER212: PA ban since august of last year: 21:21, 12 January 2024: 990 × 627 (1.29 MB) GER212: Reverted to version as of 14:25, 10 September 2023 (UTC) 14:27, 10 ...
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.
Likewise, we could have the color of those states where public funding toward conversion therapy has been banned be a specific color, but in places that have also banned the practice altogether, it would still be blue. For example, Michigan would be bubblegum except in cities like East Lansing where it's been banned, which would remain blue.