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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(137,429 posts)
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 04:30 PM Oct 2025

Conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ minors goes before the Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday is scheduled to hear oral arguments in a case that could reverse or solidify state laws across the country that ban a controversial counseling practice for LGBTQ+ youth.

The case challenges a 2019 Colorado law that bans “conversion therapy” for children and teens. Conversion therapy is a catchall term for efforts to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of LGBTQ+ people. Sometimes called “reparative therapy,” it can range from talk therapy and religious counseling to electrical shocks, pain-inducing aversion therapy and physical isolation. The therapy has been widely discredited by medical groups.

More than half of states — including some led by Republicans — have banned or restricted the practice for children and teens since California became the first to do so in 2012, according to the Movement Advancement Project, a left-leaning nonprofit research organization that tracks LGBTQ+-related laws and policies.

In recent years, however, Republicans in several states have worked to reverse bans, with some success. A poll in June by Data for Progress, a liberal think tank, found that although less than half of Republican voters, 43%, support or strongly support conversion therapy, more than half — 56% — said the Supreme Court ought to allow states to ban it.

https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/10/06/repub/conversion-therapy-for-lgbtq-minors-goes-before-the-supreme-court/

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Conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ minors goes before the Supreme Court (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2025 OP
"Conversion" therapy should be called "Torture" therapy...imo wcmagumba Oct 2025 #1

wcmagumba

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1. "Conversion" therapy should be called "Torture" therapy...imo
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 04:34 PM
Oct 2025

Some sicko Sobs thought this up and use it on children...

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