Even though conversion therapy is psychologically damaging, the Supreme Court appears poised to overturn Colorado’s ban on the practice.
Mathew Shurka says it’s time for a conversion therapy survivor to serve in Congress. Shurka is the cofounder of the anti-conversion therapy project Born Perfect. Keep up with the latest in LGBTQ+ news ...
The US Supreme Court heard a case Tuesday that will determine whether a Colorado law that prohibits licensed mental health professionals from providing conversion “therapy” to minors is constitutional ...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 7 is debating whether a Colorado ban on "conversion therapy" for gay and transgender minors violates a therapist's free speech, in other words, a fairly new ground for ...
A controversial Supreme Court case challenging a ban on so-called conversion therapy, as it pertains to treating “transgender” children, is attracting unlikely allies. A number of traditionally ...
LGBTQ Nation's March Issue is about conversion therapy, and how the practice infects the wider culture.
He remembers walking towards the worst experience of his life. The dorm hall was a concrete tunnel, with chipped white paint on the walls and a stench of sweat trapped inside. The stairs, he recalls, ...
Conversion therapy ‒ the practice of attempting to alter someone's sexual orientation or gender identity through a variety of methods ‒ has long been debunked by scientists, doctors and survivors ...
I’m a conversion-therapy survivor. I know firsthand the impossible task, and death-dealing effects, of trying to “pray the gay away.” Today, I’m also a researcher who focuses my work on conversion ...
Mey Rude is a journalist and cultural critic who has been covering queer news for a decade. The transgender, Latina lesbian lives in Los Angeles with her fiancée.
Leave it to “Bad Mormon” Heather Gay to get the former top conversion therapy practitioner David Matheson to speak on the record. On Tuesday, Bravo announced that it would air Surviving Mormonism, a ...
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