No one should be told their identity is something that can be cured. Yet many lesbian, gay, bi and trans people are being poorly treated by health and social care services, including by staff who believe that sexual orientation or gender identity is something that can be ‘cured’. In fact, our Unhealthy Attitudes (2015) report found that 10 per cent of health and […]
Read moreIsraeli Doctors Ban ‘Conversion Therapy’ for Gay People Members who perform conversion therapy could now be expelled from the Israel Medical Association, which represents 90 percent of the country’s doctors LGBT community members block a highway during a protest against a surrogate bill in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, July 22, 2018. Oded Balilty / AP A ban on conversion therapy by […]
Read moreGay Conversion Therapy Associated with Suicide Risk New study provides concrete evidence that gay conversion therapy is dangerous. When I went to see the new film Boy Erased this week, half the audience was in tears. The movie depicts the devastating practice of gay conversion therapy, in which therapists or religious professionals try to “cure” young people of their homosexuality. At […]
Read moreBoy Erased: first trailer for Oscar-tipped gay conversion drama revealed Oscar nominee Lucas Hedges stars as a young man sent away to a program aimed at ‘curing’ him of his homosexuality in the fact-based story Lucas Hedges in Boy Erased. Photograph: YouTube The trailer for the Oscar-tipped drama Boy Erased has given a first look at the fact-based […]
Read moreMalta becomes first European country to ban ‘conversion therapy’ 13:09 6th December 2016 by Daniel Megarry Malta has made history by banning so-called gay ‘conversion therapy’. The island nation becomes the first country in Europe to outlaw the harmful practice, after passing a bill that means medical professionals found to be performing or advertising such ‘therapy’ could face fines and jail time. […]
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