MADISON - In a ruling that gave the governor more power over how state laws are enacted, the Wisconsin Supreme Court cleared the way for the state to institute a ban on conversion therapy. In a 4-3 ...

Transgender people who undergo the widely discredited practice of gender conversion therapy are more likely to attempt suicide, research has revealed. The approach has no scientific basis but is sold ...

Analysis of questionnaires completed by 4,426 LGBTQ+ people in the USA suggests undergoing conversion practice targeting gender identity or sexual orientation is linked with symptoms of depression, ...

The Human Rights Campaign says, “[C]onversion therapy can lead to depression, anxiety, drug use, homelessness, and suicide.” Nonetheless, the practice remains legal in 19 states (its status is being ...

In short: Gay conversion therapy survivor Eamon McCaughan says banning the practice in NSW will save lives. He attempted suicide within two years of being exposed to the practice as a 17-year-old ...

Two years ago, in a testimony to the state of New Jersey, Benjamin Unger recounted how he was made to beat an effigy of his mother with a tennis racket. The action was part of a “treatment” meant to ...

LGBTQA+ conversion practices have been banned in some jurisdictions but are still happening informally Survivors say new laws need to make informal conversion practices illegal Victorian ...

The organization told gay and bi men to strip naked, call each other anti-gay slurs, and cuddle with older men to receive "Golden Father Energy." The jury said that's not therapy. An appeals court in ...

Conversion therapy—a practice aimed at changing someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity—has been widely discredited and is banned in 22 states and the District of Columbia. But more than 1,300 ...

The motion argued it is "fundamentally wrong" to view the LGBTQ community as needing a "fix or cure" Gay conversion therapy is a humiliating and harmful practice that needs to be banned, a Stormont ...

So-called conversion therapies rely on the assumption that sexual orientation can be changed or “cured” – an idea discredited by major medical associations in the US, the UK and elsewhere. It’s often ...