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Allowing people to consent to ‘conversion therapy’ would contradict UK and international law.
Because of ethical considerations, there are no clinical trials comparing the effects of hormone therapy to conversion therapy on trans youths. But a set of recent studies tease out cause and effect.
A UN independent expert has sounded the alarm about the state of human rights for LGBTI people in the UK.
The proposed law reinforces unscientific conversion practices – or so-called reparative therapies – that don’t work.
The relationship between faith, politics and LGBTQ rights is more complicated than it can appear at first glance.
A university course teaches students why people believe false and evidence-starved claims, to show them how to determine what’s accurate and real and what’s neither.
Government commissioned research on conversion therapy sheds light on potentially damaging practices as public consultation on a ban opens.
Fears that concerned parents might fall foul of a new law banning gay conversion practices are not borne out by the strict definitions in the bill before parliament.
Kentucky lawmakers are trying to make the state the 21st to enact a ban on conversion therapy. In states that are ‘silent’ on the issue, nonprofessionals are allowed to continue the harmful practice.
A recent Title IX lawsuit alleges discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation at religious schools. Two scholars argue that this might be a pivotal moment.
Is it even possible to respect faith leaders’ desires to uphold the harmful practice while outlawing it?
Queensland and the ACT have just passed bans on conversion therapy. But this is far from enough to protect LGBTIQ people from this harmful practice.
The suicide of a young woman who had been put through conversion therapy has sparked a backlash from India’s LGBTQ+ community.
The Trudeau government took the first step to federally ban conversion therapy — a practice intended to change sexual orientation.
Conversion therapy has been pushed on some in the LGBQ community by those who think same-sex sexual behavior is ‘unnatural.’ But such behavior seems to have evolved millions of years before humans.
A new study of nearly 500,000 individuals finds that many genes affect same-sex behavior, including newly identified candidates that may regulate smell and sex hormones.
It’s not just the most vile and abusive problems which impact people’s lives – it’s the little things too.
Theresa May has pledged to ban gay conversion therapy as part the government’s new LGBT Action Plan.
The idea that people can be ‘converted’ from homosexuality is a dangerous lie – and yet such therapies still aren’t banned in the UK.
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Timothy W. Jones is a Friend of The Conversation.Associate Professor in History, La Trobe University
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