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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 ...
Goesaert v. Cleary is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court upheld a Michigan law which prohibited women from being licensed as a bartender in all cities having a population of 50,000 or more, unless their father or husband owned the establishment. The plaintiff, Valentine Goesaert, challenged the law on the ground that it ...
(The Center Square) – Last month, President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning medical providers from performing gender reassignment or affirming procedures, such as mastectomies or ...
The White House released a letter Monday highlighting the executive order’s impact on the few hospitals that decided to suspend care in non-ban states, which ended "promises made, promises kept ...
Casablanca, Morocco, is notable for being the home of Clinique de Parc, Georges Burou's clinic for transgender women. Burou is considered one of the pioneers of gender-affirming surgery. [ 7 ] A French gynecologist, Burou created the anteriorly pedicled penile skin flap inversion vaginoplasty , still considered the "gold standard" of skin-lined ...
For ten years the 45-year-old transgender woman, who lives in Tampa, Florida, had been getting her hormone replacement therapy (HRT) from the same doctor without any problems.
Vermont law permits single LGBT individuals and same-sex couples to petition to adopt. [13] In addition, lesbian couples have access to in vitro fertilization , and state law recognizes the non-genetic, non-gestational mother as a legal parent to a child born via donor insemination, irrespective of the marital status of the parents.