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, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Conversion therapy aimed at sexual orientation or gender identity increased symptoms of suicidality and PTSD.

OLYMPIA — Five years ago, Lynnwood lawmaker Marko Liias began an effort in the Legislature to stop licensed therapists from trying to change a young person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. His ...

The practice surged in the 1980s and 1990s, before medical groups began warning it was harmful. By Ellen Barry As a teenager, Julie Rodgers attended Tuesday night group therapy sessions in which young ...

Conversion therapy puts LGBTQ youth at higher risk of suicide, studies have found. Curtis Lopez-Galloway was 16 when he told his parents he was gay. And while he didn’t exactly expect them to throw ...

The scientifically discredited practice of “conversion therapy” is still prevalent in several U.S. states to this day, and a new study found LGBTQ+ people who undergo the practice are more likely to ...

The Trump administration’s recent attacks on transgender people are the latest effort in a decades-long attempt by the far right to mainstream conversion practices—even though they have been ...

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 is any emotional or physical therapy used to “cure” or “repair” a person’s attraction to the same sex, or their gender identity and expression. Providers claim these therapies can ...

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 ...