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Conversion therapy is the pseudoscientific practice of attempting to change an individual's sexual orientation, ... Clinical Social Work Journal, 32 (4): ...
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 ...
Conversion therapy perpetuates outdated views of gender roles and identities as well as the negative stereotype that being a sexual or gender minority or identifying as LGBTQ is an abnormal aspect of human development. Most importantly, it may put young people at risk of serious harm." [69]
The research is clear — conversion therapy does not work, and can be particularly harmful to minors," Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson said in a statement.
What is 'conversion therapy'? "Conversion therapy" is the practice of trying to alter somebody’s same-sex orientation through counseling, according to the American Psychological Association ...
One of Iowa's largest cities repealed its ban on “conversion therapy” — the discredited practice of trying to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity through counseling ...
In November 2023, the UK Council for Psychotherapy published a statement on gender critical views that "Psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors who hold such views are likely to believe that the clinically most appropriate approach to working therapeutically with individuals who present with gender dysphoria, particularly children and young people, is exploratory therapy, rather ...
Practitioners are currently working in almost every U.S. state.