Facebook will take action to ban the promotion of “conversion therapies” on its social media platform and Instagram.
Here’s another victory to add to the list of LGBTQ rights in the first month of 2020! Utah approved the “conversion therapies” ban!
The Democratic Party regained the majority of both houses in Virginia in the 2019 election. A few days ago, five pro-LGBTQ bills were introduced to the legislators.
Oklahoma may ban conversion therapy for minors.
Governor Tim Walz and LGBTQ groups are trying to ban “conversion therapy” to protect Minnesota minors.
The General Assembly had retooled the bill to ban "conversion therapies" in 2019, but now it is back.
Democratic and openly gay Senator J.D. Ford introduced a bill to ban “conversion therapies” to minors under the age of 18 in Indiana.
After the bad news from Arkansas where a bunch of anti-LGBTQ laws has been passed, signed into law, or are about to be signed into law, let’s move on to North Carolina where four pro-LGBTQ bills have been introduced by legislators and the group Equality NC.
A few days ago I was telling you about Edmonton, Canada, whose city council has approved a “conversion therapy” ban. Today, let’s talk about Minneapolis, Minnesota, where the city has agreed to protect LGBTQ youth.
There are some super positive things going on in Minnesota and it feels good at the end of the year, especially as we’re going to be tipping into the presidential elections in 2020 that’ll probably be much less fun.
After Minneapolis and Duluth, Minnesota recently banned “conversion therapies”, Utah could prohibit it too.
It took Bianca Bell, a social worker who chairs the North Dakota Board of Social Work Examiners, more than a year to craft a bill banning social workers from performing “conversion therapy” on LGBTQ people or anyone else who questions their sexual orientation or gender identity.
And despite a very close vote, 8 for and 7 against, members of the North Dakota Administrative Rules Committee, which licenses social workers in the state, approved the bill.
How an ordinance was passed banning "conversion therapy" for LGBTQ minors living in Columbia, South Carolina.
Three bills related to the LGBTQ community have been introduced in Kentucky: one seeks to repeal the old law that criminalized same-sex sexual relations, another would prohibit "conversion therapies"; and the last one would prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
West Lafayette, Indiana, is a city that has been struggling with whether or not they want to ban “conversion therapy”.
Vera Bergkamp, the former president of the Dutch LGBTQ rights organization, COC Netherland, who became a member of the Democrats 66 (D66) elected in the House of Representatives in 2012, introduced a motion to ban “conversion therapies” in the country.
A breakthrough in LGBTQ protections could take place in France.
A few months ago, you learned that Germany had introduced legislation to ban “conversion therapies” to protect LGBTQ people.
It’s horrible to know that 1,000 young people in Germany are forced to undergo “conversion therapy” every year. It’s disgusting to imagine what they have to endure. Nevertheless, things may want to improve because Health Minister Jens Spahn has introduced a bill to ban “conversion therapies” aimed at “changing” the sexual orientation or gender identity of a person.
The UK government has taken a significant step towards protecting LGBTQ+ individuals by announcing its intention to ban “conversion therapy” in all its forms in England and Wales.
