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LGBT Policy Spotlight: Conversion Therapy Bans offers an overview of laws protecting LGBT youth from conversion therapy practices that attempt to change their sexual orientation or gender identity. These practices, which may include techniques such as shaming, hypnosis, inducing vomiting, and electric shocks, have been widely discredited and renounced, including by groups like the American Psychological Association. The brief also includes policy recommendations to ban harmful conversion therapy practices.
This report is part of an ongoing series that will provide in-depth analyses of laws and policies tracked at the Movement Advancement Project’s Equality Maps. The information in this report is current as of the date of publication; but the online maps are updated daily.
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LGBT Policy Spotlight: Conversion Therapy Bans (Updated July 2017)
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Recommended citation:
Movement Advancement Project. July 2017 (April 2015).
LGBT Policy Spotlight: Conversion Therapy Bans.
https://www.lgbtmap.org/policy-spotlight-conversion-therapy-bans (date of access).
