Tag: conversion therapy
EP takes a stance against LGBTQ conversion therapies for the first time
Today the European Parliament adopted its Annual report on the situation of fundamental rights in the EU.
China: End Conversion Therapy in Medical Settings
The Chinese government should take immediate steps to stop public hospitals and private clinics from offering conversion therapy, Human Rights Watch said in a new report today.
Malta says no to gay conversion therapy
The European Union should follow Malta. The small island country is now leading the European Union in banning harmful gay conversion therapy.
Hong Kong authorities OK to electric shock and ‘conversion therapy’ puts LGBTI youth at risk
City’s social workers are unofficially recommending controversial method to vulnerable lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex teenagers in an effort to make them heterosexual, according to local charities.
RNC Committee Passes Most Overtly Anti-LGBTQ Platform in History
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer civil rights organisation, today blasted the Republican National Committee for the platform committee’s decision to pass a platform with a slew of anti-equality provisions, including attacks on transgender people and a commitment to overturn nationwide marriage equality.
Vermont Joins Growing Number of Jurisdictions Protecting LGBTQ Kids from Conversion Therapy
Today, Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin signed Senate Bill 132 into law, making Vermont the eighth jurisdiction—behind California, New Jersey, Oregon, Illinois, New York, Washington D.C., and Cincinnati—to protect LGBTQ youth from the dangers of “conversion therapy.”