The city's motion states that conversion therapy has been widely discredited and linked to harmful mental health outcomes. It also warns that similar laws could face legal challenges in light of the Supreme Court decision.
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As with conservative opposition to "conversion therapy" bans, the underlying principle is that children must be forced to not only endure but dignify repugnant speech. For their well-being, children need and deserve freedom of association, even moreso than freedom of speech. Exit > voice.
JD Vance says James Dobson was "really influential" to him
Dobson was evil. 700,000+ people in the USA have undergone conversion therapy, and data shows that LGBTQ+ youth subjected to it are more than twice as likely to attempt suicide. The pipeline Dobson helped build is still running, causing irreparable harm to a new generation of young queer people.
We are working hard to protect Minnesotans from “conversion therapy” because it's a discredited and harmful practice. Despite the recent ruling from the Supreme Court and attacks the LGBTQ community, we will keep fighting for Minnesota to be a light in the dark.
I put myself into a Catholic version of conversion therapy before I came out (Courage). It framed a homosexual orientation as an addiction to be overcome. It didn't work at all, of course, but it did convince me I had no possibility for a bearable future and that God implacably hated my guts.
Judge Eboni K. Williams put the bigoted father on blast in a clip that's racking up millions of views.
Just wanted to note that Magyar is not great on LGBTQ rights, hence the "it will take a long time to come back" but closer ties to the EU will be better in the long run for trans people than what they had under Orban.
Here, Google's AI once again cites Focus on the Family to encourage vulnerable queer people to seek out conversion therapy scams, and validates the idea of treating a homosexual orientation as a pathological problem to be managed:
The US Supreme Court's recent decision in Chiles v. Salazar has sparked widespread concern over the potential reintroduction of conversion therapy practices that aim to change a person's sexual orientation. Critics warn this ruling undermines protections for LGBTQ+ youth, opening the door to harm...
Tune in April 9 at 7 a.m. Pacific, 10 Eastern, for NPR's program 1A with Jenn White"
Conversion therapy survivor and therapist James Guay will talk about the recent Supreme Court case from his own experience as both survivor and LGBTQ-affirming psychotherapist.
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“It ultimately risks grave harm to Americans’ health and wellbeing” – objector to the lawsuit, Ketanji Brown Jackson, condemning conversion practices
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Illinois conversion therapy ban intact after Supreme Court ruling, though advocates wary of future challenges
You got NYT going to press with “North American Treaty Organization“ in a headline and as the PREMISE for the entire article. WSJ thinking asymmetric warfare is when ground fire hits a plane.
These people.
Don’t know.
About anything.
NYT defined NATO as the "North American Treaty Organization." (It's the North ATLANTIC Treaty Organization.)
On CounterSpin from WIDE-LP 99.1 FM at 9 AM Sat 4/4: Supreme Court rules against Colorado law prohibiting conversion therapy; recognizing the value of local news fair.org/home/shannon...
The court ruled 8-1 against a Colorado law banning ‘conversion therapy’ for youths. What does it mean for other states, and why did two liberals side with conservatives?
OPINION: (RNS) — None of the hundreds of people I met in conversion therapy received the miracle we’d been promised. In fact, it has been discredited by every major medical and mental health organization as ineffective and harmful.
If you are looking for some resources this week or ways to take action:
Read: The Good Fruit Project Guide (www.goodfruitproject.com/guide)
Download: The Good Fruit Discussion Guide (www.goodfruitproject.com/guide )
Watch: Dear Alana, and Conversion Therapy Today (www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-et... )
Conversion Therapy: The Dangerous and Discredited Practice Targeting LGBTQ+ Individuals
www.transvitae.com/c...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
EqualityMaine asserts that the recent US Supreme Court ruling regarding conversion therapy will not affect Maine's existing laws. The state continues to uphold its prohibition against the practice, which has been discredited by medical professionals.
Boy Erased author Garrard Conley shared his thoughts on the Supreme Court of the United States’s ruling against a law banning conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ kids in Colorado
Garrard Conley @garrardconley.bsky.social, the boy (now man) of BOY ERASED, speaks to me about the Supreme Court's shock 8-1 decision finding gay conversion therapy protected under free speech. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...
After the Supreme Court struck down a ban on conversion therapy for minors, Boy Erased author Garrard Conley is speaking out.
For him, this isn’t abstract — it’s personal.
#LGBTQ #ConversionTherapy #SupremeCourt #QueerVoices
Author of “Boy Erased,” about the “humiliation” of the Supreme Court’s ruling on gay conversion therapy
Garrard Conley woke up today to learn that the Supreme Court issued an 8-1 ruling limiting states' ability to ban conversion therapy for minors, framing the practice as protected speech. He…
Book 21: Boy Erased, by Garrard Conley
Conversion therapy is basically torture — and not “torture” in the exaggerated sense of like having to sit through a long boring lecture. ACTUAL torture, as in causing long-term trauma and emotional pain.
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#books
#booksky
"Historian Hugh Ryan turns his powerful investigative attention to the queer self as shaped by the Nineties. My Bad is a fearless blend of memoir and history that treats mistakes as evidence: of desire, of survival, of how we got here. I saw my own life refracted through these pages, even as Ryan taught me to understand that history differently. Ryan joins the essential queer tradition of writers who turn memory, sex, and shame into a usable past." – Garrard Conley
And finally, thank you to my good friend @garrardconley.bsky.social, whose memoir BOY ERASED exposed the cruelties of conversion therapy and who - despite the fuckers at the Supreme Court - is still out there fighting the battle for queer kids every single day.
“Let the people be who they are.”
Lukas Sieper is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament.
He recently spoke for a European Citizens' Initiative calling for an EU-wide ban on “conversion practices."
#NoToConversion #LGBTQRights
Movies about conversion therapy that are as moving as they are shocking:
🎞️ Leviticus (2026)
🎞️ Conversion (2024)
🎞️ Unfix (2023)
🎞️ They/Them (2022)
🎞️ Pray Away (2021)
🎞️ Cured (2020)
🎞️ Boy Erased (2018)
🎞️ Kidnapped for Christ (2014)
🎞️ Save Me (2007)
and more
