Experts who work on conversion therapy talked to LGBTQ Nation about just how conversion therapy harms its victims.

None of the hundreds of people I met in conversion therapy received the miracle we’d been promised. In fact, it has been discredited by every major medical and mental health organization as ineffective and harmful.

The US Supreme Court heard a case Tuesday that will determine whether a Colorado law that prohibits licensed mental health professionals from providing conversion “therapy” to minors is constitutional. Conversion or reparative therapy promises to ...

Conversion therapy ‒ the practice of attempting to alter someone's sexual orientation or gender identity through a variety of methods ‒ has long been debunked by scientists, doctors and survivors alike as dangerous and deceptive. Bans against using it ...

As more young people identify as transgender, a fight has re-emerged over therapy that questions their gender identities. By Amy Harmon Since at least a decade ago, a rare consensus has prevailed on a provocative issue for L.G.B.T.Q. people. Professional ...

Who we are is not something that needs to be fixed. Yet for thousands of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender young people across the U.S., conversion therapy continues to send the dangerous message that their identity is a problem to be solved.

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 advocates from The Trevor Project, the Human Rights Campaign ...

The Supreme Court will soon issue its ruling in Chiles v. Salazar, a case that could overturn the bans on conversion therapy for minors currently in place in 27 states. But while some people are familiar with the case, others are asking, “What is ...