OLYMPIA — Five years ago, Lynnwood lawmaker Marko Liias began an effort in the Legislature to stop licensed therapists from trying to change a young person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. His proposal for a work group to examine and ...

As states across the country consider legislation that would protect LGBTQ youth from conversion therapy, the ineffective and dangerous practice that seeks to turn LGBTQ people straight or alter their gender identity, some media outlets are turning to ...

A bill that would allow Coloradans who are survivors of conversion therapy to take legal action at any time against licensed providers who conducted the practice passed its first committee hearing

"I was a perfect, golden, super Christian ideal man," said 29-year-old Adam Trimmer. And inside? "Inside, I was scared, broken. Afraid. I knew it wasn't real. I cried myself to sleep so many nights praying, 'God, please change me.'" Trimmer grew up outside ...

The organization told gay and bi men to strip naked, call each other anti-gay slurs, and cuddle with older men to receive “Golden Father Energy.” The jury said that’s not therapy. An appeals court in New Jersey upheld a $3.5 million judgment against ...

Transgender people who undergo the widely discredited practice of gender conversion therapy are more likely to attempt suicide, research has revealed. The approach has no scientific basis but is sold as a way to change a person from transgender to cisgender.