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On November 16, 2021, the Independence City Council voted 6–0 to ban conversion therapy on minors following two failed efforts. [377] [378] 101. Wheeling, West Virginia: May 4, 2022 May 4, 2022 Ordinance On May 4, 2022, Wheeling City Council voted 4–3 to ban conversion therapy on minors. [379] 102. La Crosse, Wisconsin: June 9, 2022 June 9 ...
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 ...
Seven Ohio cities have banned conversion therapy on minors, but there is no state law or policy on conversion therapy, according to the Movement Advancement Project. [208] In December 2015, Cincinnati [209] banned the practice, followed by Toledo, [210] Columbus, [211] [212] Dayton, [213] and Athens [214] in 2017. Lakewood and Kent banned the ...
Parents can legally force their LGBTQ children into conversion therapy in all but 14 states, and for those LGBTQ teens living in the other 36 states, conversion therapy is a very real fear.
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.
A 2020 survey carried out on US adults found majority support for banning conversion therapy for minors. [79] A 2022 YouGov poll found majority support in England, Scotland, and Wales for a conversion therapy ban for both sexual orientation and gender identity, with opposition ranging from 13 to 15 percent. [80]
Conversion therapy can range from psychotherapy to inducing nausea to discourage same-sex attraction. Washington state has said such therapy is discredited, ineffective and puts minors at ...