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patricia7777.bsky.social @patricia7777.bsky.social · 20h

...Lesbian, gay and bisexual people who have undergone conversion therapy are nearly 2x as likely to attempt suicide. Transgender and nonbinary youth who have been subject to it are >2x as likely to attempt suicide (NBC News, 9/11/19). Media implies it's just free speech. fair.org/home/nyt-sid...

NYT Sidelines LGBTQ Youth Again in Conversion Therapy Case

Coverage of the conversion therapy case left out scientific and legal information necessary to understand what’s at stake for LGBTQ youth.

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Uncloseted Media @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social · 1d

The Supreme Court is poised to overturn Colorado’s conversion therapy ban. Representing the plaintiff is the Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian legal group known for testifying in favor of or voicing support for a litany of anti-LBGTQ policies. Chris Geidner of Law Dork speaks on this.

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(The Lesser Known) Luke Wilson @lukeslamdunkwilson.bsky.social · 1d

In light of #SCOTUS hearing the ludicrous lawsuit that seeks to make #conversiontherapy legal for minors, I thought I’d share my new book a/b conversion therapy: SHAME-SEX ATTRACTION: SURVIVORS’ STORIES OF CONVERSION THERAPY.

Would you help me spread the word?

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Shame-Sex Attraction: Survivors' Stories of Conversion Therapy

Survivors' Stories of Conversion Therapy

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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 4d

While we have more research about anti-LGB conversion therapy, we do have research on attempts to force trans people to accept their gender assigned at birth. They were more than twice as likely to attempt suicide. The same harm is evident: www.science.org/content/arti...

New study reveals risks of transgender ‘conversion therapy'

Conversion therapy participants were more likely than peers to attempt suicide

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Wisconsin LGBTQ History Project @wislgbtqhistory.bsky.social · 21h

We've met survivors of conversion therapy.
We've listened to their stories.
We've seen what it did to their long-term health.
We've heard how destructive their experience was.

And we've seen and heard ENOUGH. #BeSeen🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Waukesha Resist @lizanne4077.bsky.social · 2d

Supreme Court Appears Poised to Strike Down State Bans on Conversion Therapy truthout.org/articles/sup... Justice Jackson pointed out the court’s hypocrisy, noting that conservatives of the court who are open to overturning bans on conversion therapy voted to uphold bans on gender-affirming care

Supreme Court Appears Poised to Strike Down State Bans on Conversion Therapy

Conversion therapy is a discredited anti-LGBTQ practice that many health experts say is akin to torture.

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FC @effcons.bsky.social · 2d

The conversion therapy case shows conservatives want to talk kids about sex but only to shame them
www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/the-...

The conversion therapy case shows conservatives want to talk kids about sex but only to shame them - LGBTQ Nation

The right has said for years that talking about LGBTQ+ with kids "sexualizes" them. Now they're begging the Supreme Court to shame kids about sex.

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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 2d

The Unscientific Nonsense of Conversion Therapy

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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

The Unscientific Nonsense of Conversion Therapy — Assigned

Conversion therapy is not only ineffective at its purported goal, but also only serves to amplify psychological distress.

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 2d

At a time when queer existence in universities is treated as an “ideology,” I’m proud to be on display at work being unapologetically gay.

Man takes selfie in front of a poster of them in drag.

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Human Rights Campaign @hrc.org · 3d

WATCH: Linda, who lost her son after he spent years in dangerous and discredited “conversion therapy,” speaks on why Colorado’s law helps protect families, kids, and faith.

Her story is a textbook example of why the Supreme Court must uphold Colorado’s restrictions on these harmful practices.

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jeanfb18.bsky.social @jeanfb18.bsky.social · 3d

SCOTUS upheld TN’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors. Now they seemed poised to strike down CO’s ban on “conversion therapy” for minors. “I’m just, from a very broad perspective, concerned about making sure that we have equivalence with respect to these things.” -KBJ

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With One Damning Question, Ketanji Brown Jackson Defined the Supreme Court’s New Term

The justice stripped the veneer of constitutional principle from the court’s latest blatant culture war.

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Stop Conversion Therapy / Sogice / Ecosig @conversiontherapy.bsky.social · 3d

It's not a sincere argument. They are cynically lying, while mocking anyone who wastes time trying to understand and legitimize their lies.

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Stop Conversion Therapy / Sogice / Ecosig @conversiontherapy.bsky.social · 3d

The far right has ALWAYS valued child abuse - and professional deceit against parents - as "freedom of speech" to which they alone are entitled.

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Democracy Not Monarchy @democracynotmonarchy.org · 3d

Let's be clear on this: conversion therapy is not just talking to someone about your views. In documented case after case, it includes physical, mental, & sometimes chemical abuse by the practitioners onto their victims.

The First Amendment doesn't protect torture or abuse. Conversion therapy does.

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Dan F @democracy-dan.bsky.social · 3d

So free speech trumps states rights to define medical standard of care? It sounded like some justices didn’t know the definition of “standard of care”.

Assuming they rule against the state, couldn’t the state change licensing (more education) to provide conversion therapy. Limit the damage.

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Stop Conversion Therapy / Sogice / Ecosig @conversiontherapy.bsky.social · 3d

They already do that. State law does not regulate private or personal speech, only professional conduct -- and only upon youths, not adults.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4d

First take out of arguments: Despite efforts by Sotomayor to put off a decision, it appeared the Supreme Court will subject Colorado’s conversion therapy ban to strict scrutiny under the First Amendment, with a majority likely to strike it down outright.

More to come at Law Dork:

Law Dork | Chris Geidner | Substack

The Supreme Court, law, politics, and more. Click to read Law Dork, by Chris Geidner, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

www.lawdork.com

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 4d

When you'd rather have a dead kid than a queer one, allowing conversion therapy practices makes total sense. They don't want to deal with a living queer kid; they want to mourn the imaginary one they don't have.

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Bullpen_Beeswarm @bullpen-beeswarm.bsky.social · 4d

This is a disgusting argument that free speech is being violated when children's safety are highly at risk through conversion therapy. This is going to lead to increased cases of child abuse, and sadly, child su*c*des.

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Saigonbond @ogsaigonbond.bsky.social · 4d

The corrupt far-right Justices appeared poised to back a free speech challenge to a Colorado law that bans snake oil conversion therapy aimed at young people questioning their sexual orientations or gender identities in a case likely to have national implications.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

Supreme Court skeptical of state bans on conversion therapy aimed at LGBTQ kids

The court heard arguments in a case brought by Kaley Chiles, a Christian talk therapist in Colorado, who argues that the state's ban violates her First Amendment rights.

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 4d

The Supreme Court's conservatives advanced the right's greater project of discrediting experts Tuesday, feigning that there is no medical consensus against conversion therapy.

The Medical Science Is Always ‘Uncertain’ When It Pushes Against Supreme Court’s Bias

If you came into Tuesday’s oral argument over Colorado’s conversion therapy ban...

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memeorandum @memeorandum.com · 4d

Supreme Court's conservative majority prepared to rule against conversion therapy ban (John Fritze/CNN)

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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 4d

here is jesse singal defending a conversion therapy asshole www.thecut.com/2016/02/figh...

How the Fight Over Transgender Kids Got a Leading Sex Researcher Fired

A transgender-politics maelstrom north of the border.

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Gray Media Washington Bureau @graydcbureau.bsky.social · 4d

SCOTUS is taking on another case that deals with LGBTQ+ rights. Some say it protects the free speech of counselors, while others argue it opens the floodgates for once-banned conversion therapy. Molly Martinez reports:

SCOTUS tackles conversion therapy, free speech in Chiles v. Salazar

For the first case for the new session, Supreme Court Justices are taking on another case that deals with LGBTQ+ rights.

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Dr. Ellen Fink-Samnick DBH, LCSW, CCM, CCTP, FCM @drel-dbh.bsky.social · 4d

Will SCOTUS Greenlight Conversion Therapy Even Though the UN Calls It “Torture”? truthout.org/articles/wil...

Will SCOTUS Greenlight Conversion Therapy Even Though the UN Calls It “Torture”?

The outcome of “Chiles v. Salazar” could have major implications for conversion therapy bans across the country.

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