The discredited and harmful practice is on the rise in the U.S., despite clear evidence of the damage they cause and ...

On Monday the Supreme Court agreed to hear a First Amendment challenge to a Colorado law that prohibits so-called conversion therapy for LGBTQ minors. If the court’s 6-3 conservative majority decides ...

The US Supreme Court heard a case Tuesday that will determine whether a Colorado law that prohibits licensed mental health professionals from providing conversion “therapy” to minors is constitutional ...

The Supreme Court conversion therapy case, Chiles v. Salazar, involves a hate group defending psychological torture as a "religious right." After years of refusing to hear such cases, the Supreme ...

Medical organizations unanimously oppose the practice as families report lasting psychological and relational damage ...

Scientific studies on conversion therapy show that it's harmful and ineffective. All major medical and psychological associations oppose it. Every major medical and mental health organization opposes ...

The scientifically discredited practice of “conversion therapy” is still prevalent in several U.S. states to this day, and a new study found LGBTQ+ people who undergo the practice are more likely to ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. When a 14-year-old girl in Boulder ...

The author outside the U.S. Supreme Court as the Court heard oral arguments in Chiles v. Salazar on Oct. 7, 2025, in Washington, DC. On Tuesday, I stood on the steps of the Supreme Court with ...

I’m a conversion-therapy survivor. I know firsthand the impossible task, and death-dealing effects, of trying to “pray the gay away.” Today, I’m also a researcher who focuses my work on conversion ...

The Supreme Court announced Monday it will hear a case regarding whether state bans on “conversion therapy” trying to change minors’ sexual orientation or gender identity are legal—a case that could ...

After years of refusing to hear such cases, the Supreme Court has decided to hear Chiles v. Salazar, a case that could overturn the bans on conversion therapy for minors currently in place in 23 ...