Tag: conversion therapy
Conversion therapy: Health professionals say ethical, legal obligations could clash in Malta
The Malta Chamber of Psychologists said that while homosexuals should enjoy the same rights as everyone else in Maltese society, the proposed Bill which will criminalise conversion therapy will ‘directly impact’ their profession.
Only in America : Anti-LGBT “Religious Liberty Accommodations Act” Advances to the Mississippi Senate
Following a vote today by Mississippi Senate Judiciary A to advance H.B 1523, Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Mississippi called on the Mississippi Senate to put a stop to the discriminatory anti-LGBT bill. If passed, H.B. 1523 would allow individuals, religious organisations and private associations to use religion to discriminate against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Mississippians, in some of the most important aspect of their lives, including at work, at school, in their family life and more. The bill passed out of committee by a voice vote.
National Child Welfare Advocates Issue Letter Opposing Nebraska ’s Anti-LGBT Adoption Bill
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organisation today released a letter from leading national child welfare agencies opposing a bill in the Nebraska Unicam, LB 975, which would enshrine discrimination into Nebraska law by allowing taxpayer-funded adoption agencies to reject prospective parents based on “the child placing agency’s sincerely held religious beliefs.”
A Gay Israeli Soldier Asks Why His Country Has ‘Abandoned’ Him
Last week, a day after commemorating LGBT Rights Day, Israel’s ruling coalition shot down a package of bills meant to expand the rights and protections of the LGBT community.
HRC, National Organisations Target “Conversion Therapy” Quacks with Historic FTC Fraud Complaint
Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) filed a federal consumer fraud complaint against People Can Change, an organisation that preys on vulnerable LGBT people and families by using damaging and discredited claims that it can change an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity.
NCLR and HRC Release Sample Legislation to End Conversion Therapy on LGBTQ Youth
Sample legislation for state legislators comes just days after the Obama Administration issued a report calling for an end to conversion therapy.