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Conversion therapies, also known as conversion practices, are efforts to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity. These practices are not just harmful, they do the opposite of what they claim.

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LGBTQ+ Legislation Bills Tracker by Govbot @govbotlgbtq.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🏳️‍⚧️ CA SB934 — California Could Let You Sue Therapists Over Gender Identity Attempts California could allow you to file a civil lawsuit against a licensed mental health provider if they attempted to change your sexual orientation or gender identity. ... ...
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LGBTQ+ Legislation Bills Tracker by Govbot @govbotlgbtq.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
... ... The bill would define ‘sexual orientation change efforts’ as any practice by a mental health provider that seeks to direct a patient toward a predetermined sexual orientation or gender identity. Sept. 26, 2026: Approved by the Governor. 🔗 Read the full bill
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California SB934
California could allow you to file a civil lawsuit against a licensed mental health provider if they attempted to change your sexual orientation or gender identity. The bill would define ‘sexual orientation change efforts’ as any practice by a mental health provider that seeks to
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National Secular Lobby @secularlobby.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
QNews checks claims by Barnett, Ellis and the ACL against Tasmania's Greens conversion practices bill. The bill says prayer "does not of itself constitute a conversion practice"; offences need intentional harm. #taspol #auspol qnews.com.au/tasmania-con...
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Fact check: The claims being made about Tasmania’s conversion practices bill
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Stop Conversion Therapy / Sogice / Ecosig @conversiontherapy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
To what extent have trans health advocates and Democrats sought to educate their neighbors and co-workers about trans youth lives -- and to what extent have they sought to enact unpopular regulations behind closed doors?
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Stop Conversion Therapy / Sogice / Ecosig @conversiontherapy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
In "We Were Trapped in the Mirror Too," Randy Scobey reflects on his leadership at Exodus International, how conversion ministries turn lives into display cases and God into a mirror image, and why sincerity could never excuse the harm caused.
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The Overcomer Illusion: Breaking Free from Exodus International
Randy Scobey responds to Ex-Gay Watch on the overcomer narrative, Exodus International, and the human cost of treating testimony as proof.
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Stop Conversion Therapy / Sogice / Ecosig @conversiontherapy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
77.9% of prospective clinical studies documented direct harms (aversive shocks, depression, lost functioning). 68.2% of retrospective studies showed significant links to harms like depression and suicidality. Zero studies of conversion therapy showed an absence of harm.
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Stop Conversion Therapy / Sogice / Ecosig @conversiontherapy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A major new systematic review in American Psychologist (Pachankis et al.) analyzed 130 empirical studies spanning 70 years of "conversion therapy" (SOGIECE). The findings: 🧵1/2 doi.org/10.1037/amp0001794
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Stop Conversion Therapy / Sogice / Ecosig @conversiontherapy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Can you help someone reconsider their conversion therapy-oriented ideology and identity as "former homosexuals" — or can confrontation make the beliefs more entrenched?
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Part 2: Can You Help Someone Leave an Ex-Gay Ideology? - Ex-Gay Watch
Why do people sometimes become more entrenched when confronted with better evidence? And if direct argument doesn’t work, is there anything friends, family members, critics...
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Stop Conversion Therapy / Sogice / Ecosig @conversiontherapy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Why do some ex-gay / conversion therapy activists eventually say “I was wrong,” while others keep revising the explanation so the underlying belief never has to be wrong?
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Part 1: Why Some Ex-Gay Leaders Change Their Minds — and Others Double Down - Ex-Gay Watch
For decades, the ex-gay movement has produced a striking number of former leaders who eventually repudiated some or all of what they once taught. John...
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Stop Conversion Therapy / Sogice / Ecosig @conversiontherapy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
There's also a queer Muslim group that opposes Christian nationalism. www.instagram.com/queermotherl...
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Stop Conversion Therapy / Sogice / Ecosig @conversiontherapy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Have you talked with LGBTQ Jewish and Christian groups in Dallas? Some are probably too timid to stand up to antigay evangelicals, but others are likely to be supportive.
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Gay Partisan. @gaypartisan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I am going to have two booths at Pride in Dallas to organize a Gay group to push back against Christians. If you know people in North Texas, let them know. edwardhsebesta.substack.com/p/two-booth-...
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Two booth spaces at Pride in Dallas for Gay Strike for against religious aggression. Need volunteers.
This is your opportunity to talk to the LGBT about the anti-Gay Christians. I need some help setting up the booth.
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Stop Conversion Therapy / Sogice / Ecosig @conversiontherapy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The question raised by Christopher Yuan’s sexual and spiritual identity model is whether rejecting an accurate description of one’s sexuality represents transformation—or whether it trades sexual honesty and transparency for a misleading identity that their religious community will accept.
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Christopher Yuan: From Exodus International to Holy Sexuality - Ex-Gay Watch
Christopher Yuan is important to the history of the ex-gay movement partly because his ministry illustrates how that movement has changed. Yuan participated in the...
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Stop Conversion Therapy / Sogice / Ecosig @conversiontherapy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Writer Patrick Fitzgerald’s final Ex-Gay Watch article makes clearer why conversion therapy mattered to him. Patrick's concern about gay students, bullying and rhetoric portraying LGBT people as defective was not merely an ideological disagreement: He personally experienced the human consequences.
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Remembering Patrick Fitzgerald: Looking Beyond the Claims of the Ex-Gay Movement - Ex-Gay Watch
Patrick Fitzgerald, who wrote for Ex-Gay Watch from 2009 to 2013, died May 11, 2026, in Naples, Florida. He was 57. Patrick’s obituary describes a...
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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Kate Nevens has written to ScotGov calling for a watertight ban on conversion practices to be at the heart of the Programme for Government. Having worked on Equalities Committee last session I saw first-hand the harm these abhorrent practices cause. There can be no loopholes. No excuses.
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Stop Conversion Therapy / Sogice / Ecosig @conversiontherapy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Milo Yiannopoulos’ shift from gay provocateur to ex-gay traditionalist—from deportation fan to ICE deportee—reveals a stark pattern. His identities change, but his method remains: weaponizing contradictions for chaos, division, and self-ostracism. Typical of the conversion therapy movement.
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Milo Yiannopoulos: From Gay Provocateur to Ex-Gay ICE Deportee - Ex-Gay Watch
I have always found Milo Yiannopoulos difficult to categorize: He’s an openly gay British man who became a minor celebrity in a right-wing American political...
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Stop Conversion Therapy / Sogice / Ecosig @conversiontherapy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Joseph Nicolosi Jr.'s new paper claims neuroscience supports conversion therapy. But a close look reveals a major flaw: his cited research doesn't actually study sexual orientation change, and some directly disproves his claims. His movement's terminology changes; the lack of evidence doesn't.
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Does Neuroscience Provide New Evidence for Conversion Therapy? - Ex-Gay Watch
Joseph Nicolosi Jr. contends in a new paper that recent research provides scientific support for psychotherapy that may change unwanted sexual attractions. He points to...
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Neuroskeptic @neuroskeptic.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
"Trying to change one's sexual orientation is health-undermining and ineffective" - a study of 315 sexual minority Mormons, 75% of whom tried to change their own sexuality at some point in their lives pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42603819/
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The Bellingham Herald @bellinghamherald.com · 16/08/2026
The Washington Attorney General’s Office said it is committed to defending the state’s law banning conversion therapy for minors.
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Ban on controversial conversion therapy paused for a Tacoma-area counselor
The Washington Attorney General’s Office said it is committed to defending the state’s law banning conversion therapy for minors.
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Stop Conversion Therapy / Sogice / Ecosig @conversiontherapy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
"Strength in Weakness" is a ministry led by Guy Hammond. 24 survivors came forward to expose it. Dr. Lucas Wilson (@lukenorth.bsky.social) says: "Any effort to suppress someone’s gender or sexuality falls under the umbrella of conversion therapy."
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Strength In Weakness: Guy Hammond’s Program That Devastates LGBTQ Survivors
By replacing promises of becoming straight with demands for celibacy, SIW has avoided the label of conversion therapy and, so far, scrutiny.
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Steve Hudson @dustcircle.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
#Strength In #Weakness: #GuyHammond ’s Program That Devastates #LGBTQ #Survivors www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/strength-i...
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Strength In Weakness: Guy Hammond’s Program That Devastates LGBTQ Survivors
By replacing promises of becoming straight with demands for celibacy, SIW has avoided the label of conversion therapy and, so far, scrutiny.
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Stop Conversion Therapy / Sogice / Ecosig @conversiontherapy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It seems to me that Lewis was nudging Greeves toward celibacy and isolation.
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Stop Conversion Therapy / Sogice / Ecosig @conversiontherapy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Arthur Greeves was a world-famous Oxford scholar and author C.S. Lewis’s lifelong gay best friend. Scholar Jason Lepojärvi says Greeves’s same-sex attraction developed through phases of disclosure, affirmation, psychoanalysis (conversion therapy), theological reframing, and attempted renunciation.
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C.S. Lewis's Gay Best Friend, Arthur - PubMed
Arthur Greeves (1895-1966) was the world-famous Oxford scholar and author C.S. Lewis's (1898-1963) lifelong gay best friend. The article offers the first sustained reconstruction of Greeves's sexual self-understanding across six identifiable stages between 1917 and 1935. Drawing on Lewis's nearly th …
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Read an interview with pioneering LGBTQ historian John D'Emilio and an excerpt from his new book "Making Gay History" in the new issue of "Columbia College Today." #PrideReads #LGBTQBooks #HistoryBooks buff.ly/oQf72y3
Cover of Making Gay History: Memoir of a Scholar-Activist by John D'Emilio. The cover features three photographs with white borders against a solid green background. The photograph at the top of the cover features a group protesting holding signs and banners. The next photograph is cut off only showing part of a person on a chair. The third photograph features two people smiling into the camera. The title is in a light green serif font in the center. The subtitle is in the bottom right corner in all caps in white. The author’s name is below this.
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Heavenofhorror.com @heavenofhorror.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
LEVITICUS is an LGBTQ+ horror movie about the brutal impact of religious conversion therapy. Also, it’s a beautiful love story. It has elements of movies as diverse as It Follows and The Miseducation of Cameron Post. I was completely mesmerized throughout. Read our full Leviticus movie review!
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Leviticus – Movie Review (4/5)
The post Leviticus – Movie Review (4/5) appeared first on Heaven of Horror.
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 28/07/2026
Over the past eight years, 11 countries and dozens of states worldwide have outlawed conversion practices. The UK is one of the few Western European nations yet to introduce a ban.
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Draft conversion practices bill loopholes make it “instruction manual for abuse”
Eight years after a ban was pledged the draft Conversion Practices Bill is here – and its not without problems
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⭐️ Fio the Wah! ⭐️ 🔜 NYFF @fiofirefox.com · 29/07/2026
Why did you transition? Right answers only. I wanted to live my own life and not the one everyone pushed onto me. I wanted to be happy.
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⭐️ Fio the Wah! ⭐️ 🔜 NYFF @fiofirefox.com · 29/07/2026
I did too. I was put into Conversion Therapy by the Psychiatrist I thought was supposed to help me in 1994. It didn’t fix me because I wasn’t broken. It took a few years to realize this. Be patient with yourself.
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LGBTQ+ @lgbtqplusnews.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
LGBT charities tell SNP ministers to introduce conversion therapy ban
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LGBT charities tell SNP ministers to introduce conversion therapy ban
This comes after a draft bill to ban the practices in England and Wales was published last month
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(The Lesser Known) Luke Wilson @lukeslamdunkwilson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
🚨 SHAME-SEX ATTRACTION’s most recent review is now out! 🚨 I am so grateful for Cody Sanders’ thoughtful and generous review in Christian Ethics Today of my new anthology. Here it is! 💜
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Gay Bitterskeets @gaybitterskeets.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I'm really glad you included coerced celibacy in your framework. Too often it gets separated out as something completely different from sexual orientation change efforts, when it's really just a repackaging of them.
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 21/07/2026
Trump's State Department gutted human rights grants for torture survivors and gay people under authoritarian regimes, then tried to hand $40 million to a Hillsdale-connected anti-communist group and $5 million to a British organization fighting gay conversion therapy bans.
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Trump admin pushes foreign aid grants toward right-wing causes - Salon.com
Trump's State Department has prioritized aid for white South Africans and anti-communist organizations.
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Stop Conversion Therapy / Sogice / Ecosig @conversiontherapy.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
If anyone out there was treated to conversion therapy by a licensed therapist, they have a legal case in more than 20 states and 114 cities; the question is whether they are motivated to take action. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convers... 🧵3/3
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Conversion therapy in the United States - Wikipedia
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Stop Conversion Therapy / Sogice / Ecosig @conversiontherapy.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Nor has anyone attempted -- recently -- to make use of these laws to prosecute law-breaking therapists. 🧵2/3
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Stop Conversion Therapy / Sogice / Ecosig @conversiontherapy.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the nation's conversion therapy bans are still in effect. Colorado rewrote its law to avoid protected speech, and no one has yet challenged other state or local laws. 🧵1/3
Map of 22 U.S. states and 114 localities with bans on conversion therapy still in effect.
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Unofficial BBC News NI @unofficialnewsni.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
'They wanted me to repent': Inside the push to ban conversion practices [ From BBC News NI ]
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'They wanted me to repent': Inside the push to ban conversion practices
BBC News - Northern Ireland
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Amendment @amendment.app · 07/07/2026
Colorado now lets people harmed by conversion therapy sue the therapists who did it—and there’s no time limit on filing. The new law also reaches the clinics and employers that hired, supervised, or kept those practitioners on.
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HB1322: Civil Actions for Conversion Therapy Survivors (Passed)
Colorado HB1322 allows survivors of sexual orientation or gender identity change efforts to file civil actions for damages without time limitations.
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Jamie Robertson @pinkjokalypse.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Conversion therapist molested gay men he was “treating” for homosexuality www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/02/conv...
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Conversion therapist molested gay men he was "treating" for homosexuality - LGBTQ Nation
The details of what he did to his male patients are shocking. He also abused a 13-year-old girl.
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Next with Kyle Clark @nexton9news.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
In one instance, a chatbot used harmful language to describe a gay person. In another, a chatbot recommended conversion therapy.
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GLAAD report finds AI chatbots giving biased, harmful advice to LGBTQ users
In one instance, a chatbot used harmful language to describe a gay person. In another, a chatbot recommended conversion therapy.
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Liberation Theology @liberationtheology.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
A recent article by Matthew Vines seems to normalize evangelical culture, while stereotyping and ostracizing people who don't conform to that culture's sins. But real Christians and queers agree: Systemic sin must not be normalized. Through dissent and wholesome rebellion, we can all do better.
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Matthew Vines Wants Normality, Not Queerness
But evangelicals and queers agree: Normality is not enough. We can all do better.
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Emyn Dean @emyndean.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The Conversion Practices (i.e. conversion therapy) draft bill is out today. I have thoughts. Context: I was the primary author of the motion to Lib Dem conference which provided the backbone for the law that passed in the House of Lords. (thread):
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WILDsound Podcast @wildsoundpodcast.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Podcast: EP. 1809: Writer/Actor Daniel Garcia (SEPARATE ROADS) www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLYw... When former high school sweethearts meet again years - they’re forced to confront the scars of their past – including Tyler’s attempt to ‘cure’ his love through religious conversion therapy. #wildsound
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Podcast: EP. 1809: Writer/Actor Daniel Garcia (SEPARATE ROADS)
YouTube video by Wildsound Festival
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Brattleboro Retreat @brattlebororetreat.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
🏳️‍🌈 "There is no sin in discovering who you are." The second episode of Unravelling’s Pride Month series examines the hidden human and economic costs of so-called conversion therapy with professor Ben Harrell, Ph.D., of Trinity University. www.brattlebororetreat.org/podcast
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MambaOnline.Com @mambaonline.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
A major step forward for LGBTQ+ mental health care in Africa. An Africa-focused "conversion therapy" toolkit has been launched to help mental health providers support survivors with affirming, trauma-informed care. Read more ⬇️ www.mambaonline.com/2026/06/23/l...
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LGBTQ+ Mental Health Resource Aims to Support Conversion Therapy Survivors in Africa - MambaOnline - LGBTQ South Africa online
A resource has been launched to help African mental health providers support LGBTQ+ survivors of conversion therapy with affirming care.
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Q. McLamore @ghawinriver.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
This is why Labour fails. It *says* it's doing something like banning conversion therapy (angering right-wingers and moderates), then turns around and defangs the conversion therapy ban so much that it's worthless while also harming trans kids, pissing off everyone else. They don't commit.
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Columbia Global Freedom of Expression @cgfoe.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
In his article, Lautaro Furfaro unpacks the US Supreme Court’s decision, contrasting the Court’s 1st Amendment framing of conversion therapy bans with international human rights standards on so-called conversion practices. 🔍Article: globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/publications...
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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 18/06/2026
Netherlands Bans LGBTQ+ Conversion Therapy in Historic Rights Victory www.mambaonline.com/... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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Netherlands Bans LGBTQ+ Conversion Therapy in Historic Rights Victory
In a landmark move, Netherlands bans LGBTQ+ conversion therapy after a historic Senate vote and 15 years of survivor-led activism.
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parademag.bsky.social @parademag.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Leviticus transforms conversion therapy into a terrifying supernatural nightmare, delivering a powerful and unsettling queer horror story. Read the full review at the link below. bit.ly/4xFI5mj
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