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Conversion “therapy” is a sexual identity and orientation intervention that needs to be banned. It doesn’t work, and it causes harm. Just over a century old, this harmful “treatment” was torture not unlike the witch trials. A handful of nations and some other smaller municipalities have taken the appropriate step to ban this, but it is otherwise still allowed. Learn more as we throw this intervention all the way under the bus.

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Links for Today:

1. https://www.history.com/news/gay-conversion-therapy-origins-19th-century

2. https://www.hrc.org/resources/the-lies-and-dangers-of-reparative-therapy

3. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/24/opinion/gay-conversion-therapy-torture.html

4. https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/SexualOrientationGender/Pages/ReportOnConversiontherapy.aspx

5. https://www.thetrevorproject.org/get-involved/trevor-advocacy/50-bills-50-states/about-conversion-therapy/

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