The discredited and harmful practice is on the rise in the U.S., despite clear evidence of the damage they cause and opposition from every major medical association.

Demonstrators are rallying in the rotunda ahead of Senate votes on a conversion therapy ban, Reproductive Defense Act and Trans Refuge bill on Friday, April 21 in St. Paul. NINA MOINA: Well, this US ...

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 ...

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday on whether to strike down state-level bans on LGBTQ conversion therapy, with justices on the majority-conservative court suggesting they may be willing ...

Theresa Gaffney is the lead Morning Rounds writer and reports on health care, new research, and public policy, with a particular interest in mental health, gender-affirming care, and LGBTQ+ patient ...

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 ...

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 ...

Laws banning conversion therapy for minors in more than 20 states are under threat, thanks to a Supreme Court case challenging Colorado’s legislation against the practice on the basis of free speech.

After a federal appeals court stopped Michigan’s ban, similar legislation in Ohio cities could be in jeopardy.

Based on oral arguments last week, the Supreme Court's conservative majority seems likely to hold that the First Amendment protects so-called conversion therapy for gay and transgender minors when it ...

I’m a conversion-therapy survivor. I know firsthand the impossible task, and death-dealing effects, of trying to “pray the gay away.” Today, I’m also a researcher who focuses my work on conversion ...

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 ...