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Conversion therapy can cause significant, long-term psychological harm. [2] This includes significantly higher rates of depression, substance abuse, and other mental health issues in individuals who have undergone conversion therapy than their peers who did not, [75] [76] including a suicide attempt rate nearly twice that of those who did not. [77]
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.
A group called UKCP members Therapists Against Conversion Therapy and Transphobia (TACTT) published an open letter criticising the organisation and started a petition calling for the board's removal in response, which gained 1,500 signatures, more than 10% of the UKCP's membership.
Practitioners are currently working in almost every U.S. state.
Multiple recent studies have concluded that conversion therapy harms the mental health of those subjected to it, but a report published Monday is the first to Conversion therapy costs U.S. over $9 ...
The group that helps LGBTQ+ youth find resources or helps those in crisis identified more than 1,320 conversion therapy practitioners across 48 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, this ...
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 ...
The history of conversion therapy can be divided broadly into three periods: an early Freudian period; a period of mainstream approval, when the mental health establishment became the "primary superintendent" of sexuality; and a post-Stonewall period where the mainstream medical profession disavowed conversion therapy. [1]