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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.
The Youth Mental Health Protection Act, H.B. 217, is an Illinois bill that prohibits mental health professionals from implementing conversion therapy, reparative therapy, or sexual orientation change efforts on patients under the age of eighteen. [2]
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 ...
Scannell had hoped Green Bay would become the 15th Wisconsin city to adopt a citywide conversion therapy ban, joining Appleton, Cudahy, Eau Claire, Glendale, Kenosha, La Crosse, Madison, Milwaukee ...
One of Iowa's largest cities repealed its ban on “conversion therapy” — the discredited practice of trying to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity through counseling ...
Gov. Roy Cooper signed into law a certificate of need exemption for the project on Friday
Pickup v. Brown (12-17681) and Welch v.Brown (13-15023) are 2012 lawsuits in the United States challenging the constitutionality of California Senate bill SB 1172, which banned conversion therapy (therapy aimed at changing sexual orientation) on children under the age of 18, effective January 2013.
Sex-crazed workers at troubled VA facility had 12-person orgy — and one official bedded 32 co-workers: bombshell probe ... Several VA officials in the state have resigned amid the probe into the ...