At first glance, Chiles v. Salazar, argued before the Supreme Court in October and still awaiting a decision, appears to ask a narrow legal question.

In a study published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, David L. Perez, MD, MMSc, Founding Director of the Functional Neurological Disorder Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital ...

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 ...

A growing body of peer-reviewed research and first-person accounts from families across the country reveal significant risks associated with conversion therapy, the discredited practice aimed at ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cuyahoga County, on Tuesday, became the first county in Ohio to ban the use of conversion therapy on minors and vulnerable adults. County Council, including 10 Democrats and one ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People attend the WorldPride International Rally and March on Washington for Freedom at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Northeast Ohio residents are calling on Cuyahoga County leaders to join municipalities across the state in outlawing anti-LGBTQ+ practices known as “conversion therapy.” The ...

The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that a legislative committee's rejection of a ban on conversion therapy was unconstitutional. The decision gives more power to the governor and less to the Republican ...

Conversion therapy might harm a young person's long-term heart health, a new study says. Young adults assigned male at birth were nearly three times as likely to be diagnosed with high blood pressure ...

Conversion therapy puts LGBTQ youth at higher risk of suicide, studies have found. Curtis Lopez-Galloway was 16 when he told his parents he was gay. And while he didn’t exactly expect them to throw ...