Attempts to change sexual orientation or gender identity and efforts to ban them.
Governor Walz just made history in Minnesota with a bold move to protect the rights of transgender people from discriminatory laws. #ProtectTransHealthcare #LGBTQRights #MinnesotaProud
Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced her resignation. Sturgeon was a prominent supporter of LGBT rights and oversaw the passing of the Gender Recognition Reform Bill. Her legacy in this area will continue to inspire progress towards equality and acceptance. #NicolaSturgeon #LGBTrights #Scotland #GenderRecognitionReform #conversiontherapy #transphobia
The Conservative Party first promised to put an end to conversion therapy in 2018 under the leadership of Theresa May. However, in 2022, her successor, Boris Johnson, announced plans to quietly drop the ban altogether. This led to public outcry and the party backpedaled, announcing that they would legislate against conversion therapy, but only for lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals, leaving out trans men and women.
A British anti-LGBTQ+ Christian group is supporting a Maltese man in his legal defense for allegedly breaking Malta's conversion therapy laws.
In a deeply concerning move, Wisconsin Republicans voted on Thursday to reinstate the discredited practice of conversion therapy for LGBTQ people. This practice, which aims to change an individual's gender identity or s…
Ireland's minister for children, equality, disability, integration, and youth, Roderic O'Gorman, has pledged to introduce legislation that would ban conversion therapy in the country. O'Gorman, who is openly gay, has re…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota convenes its most diverse Legislature to-date in January, with some of its newest members saying they plan to use their history-making elections to pass policies to protect the minority…
(Reuters) - A U.S. federal appeals court on Tuesday unanimously upheld Washington state's ban on conversion therapy for children, rejecting a therapist's claim that it undermined his free speech and targeted him because…
Aug. 24 (UPI) -- In a major victory for LGBTQ+ rights, Vietnam has said that being gay, transgender, bi- or homosexual is "not an illness" and ordered medical providers to end controversial practices like "conversion th…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden issued an executive order Wednesday to stymie what what his administration calls discriminatory legislative attacks on the LGBTQ community by Republican-controlled states, declaring…
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand’s parliament on Tuesday near-unanimously passed a legislation that bans practices intended to forcibly change a person’s sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, known…
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A House panel has introduced legislation that would bar licensed therapists and counselors from offering so-called conversion therapy to minors. Conversion therapy — sometimes called “reparation ther…
PARIS (AP) — France has a new law that bans so-called conversion therapies and authorizes jail time and fines for practitioners who use the scientifically discredited practice to attempt to change the sexual orientation…
(Thomson Reuters Foundation) - France’s parliament voted on Tuesday to ban so-called conversion therapy, joining a handful of countries that have taken steps to outlaw practices that seek to change a person’s sexual ori…
