“Conversion therapy,” the widely discredited practice of trying to change someone’s sexuality or gender identity, has been banned across more than 20 states over the last 13 years. But the fate of ...

The practice surged in the 1980s and 1990s, before medical groups began warning it was harmful. By Ellen Barry As a teenager, Julie Rodgers attended Tuesday night group therapy sessions in which young ...

Scientific studies on conversion therapy show that it's harmful and ineffective. All major medical and psychological associations oppose it. Every major medical and mental health organization opposes ...

When the U.S. Supreme Court commences proceedings Tuesday to hear oral arguments over whether a Colorado therapist can offer “conversion therapy” to queer youth, the stakes are far greater than one ...

The author outside the U.S. Supreme Court as the Court heard oral arguments in Chiles v. Salazar on Oct. 7, 2025, in Washington, DC. On Tuesday, I stood on the steps of the Supreme Court with ...

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Oct. 7 will debate whether Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy” for gay or transgender minors violates the free speech rights of a licensed counselor. The counselor ...

The U.S. Supreme Court will determine whether Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy, an ineffective and often harmful practice ...

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Minn. -- Minnesota is the latest state to move toward making so-called "conversion therapy" illegal. It's one of 39 states to introduce bills on conversion therapy, a widely discredited practice that ...

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority seemed poised on Tuesday to accept a conservative Christian group’s free speech challenge to a Colorado law banning conversion therapy, in a case that could ...

Did the NFL Super Bowl-winning Kansas City Chiefs kicker really undergo ex-gay conversion therapy? Let's take a closer look... Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker has helped his team win three ...

Every major medical and mental health organization opposes conversion therapy because research shows it to be harmful and ineffective. Even so, it’s important to know what individual research studies ...