U.N. draft report uses pseudoscience to claim gender dysphoria is 'socially contagious'
The UN's preliminary report on sex-based violence incorrectly claims trans acceptance "erase[s] the legal category of women.”
July 15, 2025
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'Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria' Is Biased Junk Science
A frighteningly biased piece on trans youth was published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, says Brynn Tannehill, who breaks down why it's so wrong.
February 20, 2018
'Gaydar' AI Researchers Accuse HRC, GLAAD of 'Smear Campaign'
LGBT groups criticized a Stanford University study of an algorithm designed to identify gay and straight people as "junk science."
September 11, 2017
Leaked Files Expose Anti-Abortion, Anti-LGBTQ+ Medical Group
More than 10,000 files from the American College of Pediatricians were leaked in an unsecured Google Drive.
May 4, 2023
Court Ruling Paves Path for Release of Regnerus Records
A Florida judge ruled that documents related to a controversial 2012 study on LGBT parents should be released.
November 13, 2013
Trump HHS posts ‘so-called report’ pushing conversion therapy for trans kids
Experts tell The Advocate that the document can't be taken seriously and is riddled in misinformation.
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May 1, 2025
Op-ed: Religiously Backed or Not, This Therapy Is Abuse
A progressive rabbi says faith leaders promoting 'reparative' therapy are dangerously distorting religious freedom.
April 22, 2015
Trump orders NIH to study gender transition ‘regret.’ Here's what we already know about it
Trump wants to study transgender people's "regret," but people are more likely to regret having children than gender-affirming surgery.
April 7, 2025
Oped Conversion Therapy Found Me My First Boyfriend
An attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center shares his own story of surviving conversion therapy and exposes its dangers during a series of community meetings.
April 13, 2012
Gay 'Cures' Don't Work, Says World Psychiatric Association
"Ex-gay" or "conversion" therapy is harmful, and there is no scientific proof that it can change someone's sexual orientation, says the World Psychiatric Association.
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March 21, 2016
Anti-Conversion Therapy Bill Gaining Ground in U.K.
The bill could end the use of the scientifically unsound practice by unregulated therapists.
June 28, 2018
Meet the LGBTQ Bloggers Debunking Right-Wing Lies
Two bloggers expertly exposed and challenged misinformation about queer and trans people this year.
December 21, 2018
Cincinnati Approves 'Ex-Gay' Therapy Ban
Amid public opposition, the city enacts the ban, which applies to state-licensed therapists operating within the city limits.
December 9, 2015
Is My Husband's Not Gay an Ad for the 'Ex-Gay' Industry?
Opposition against TLC's new documentary about four Mormon men who are attracted to men but married to women is growing as the show's air date nears.
January 6, 2015
Mixed Messages: SCOTUS Denies Review of 'Ex-Gay' Therapy Ban, Trans Inmate's Surgery
The court's action lets New Jersey's ban on 'ex-gay' therapy stand, but ends a prisoner's hope for gender-affirming surgery.
May 4, 2015
This N.H. Republican Wants to Ban Conversion Therapy
Rep. Eric Schleien wants LGBT youth in New Hampshire to know they were 'born this way,' and no so-called therapist should try to change them.
October 13, 2015
Trump's new strategy to restrict abortion nationwide — don't say ‘ban’
Trump's team has developed a way to make abortion difficult to obtain without the same costs as an unpopular ban.
July 22, 2025
Trump's DOJ withdraws support for trans woman incarcerated in Georgia
The Biden administration had previously supported the incarcerated woman, identified only as Jane Doe in the case.
April 29, 2025
Texas Ad Company Will Remove 'Ex-Gay' Billboard
A billboard in Dallas promoting so-called reparative therapy will be removed 'within a week,' the president of Impact Advertising says.
January 14, 2015