How to Use conversion therapy in a Sentence
conversion therapy
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Those who carry out conversion therapy will also face up to two years in prison.
—Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Aug. 2023
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The city passed its Human Rights Ordinance in 2003 and banned conversion therapy two years ago.
—Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 29 Mar. 2023
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The conversion therapy ban and trans refuge bills now go straight to Democratic Gov. Tim Walz for his signature.
—CBS News, 21 Apr. 2023
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His mother collapsed in tears while his father set him up with conversion therapy.
—Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 20 Sep. 2023
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Notable this year was Norway, rising from 17 to 8, thanks largely to its reversal of conversion therapies.
—Matt Kirouac, Travel + Leisure, 9 May 2024
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Rohn said the conversion therapy ban was almost a decade long project of community advocates.
—Sara Chernikoff, The Courier-Journal, 10 June 2024
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This cultivated at the end of Season 3, when Hank saved Cristobal from his estranged wife, who was trying to perform some kind of electroshock torture/conversion therapy on him.
—Evan Romano, Men's Health, 1 May 2023
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California became the first state to ban conversion therapy for minors in 2012.
—Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2023
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Her emotionally abusive mother sends her to conversion therapy — in this case, at the hands of Batman villain Scarecrow.
—Abraham Josephine Riesman, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2024
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Bishops and church leaders in subsequent years were taught that being gay was a reversible condition, and church leaders would send gay men to conversion therapy or advise they could be fixed by marrying a woman.
—Jessica Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Aug. 2023
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Research into conversion therapy’s harms to gay individuals began to emerge in the mid-1990s.
—Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2023
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The Strength in Weakness website denies using conversion therapy.
—Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 3 Aug. 2023
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What's happening for schools?Statehouse: conversion therapy, food delivery apps, military tax cuts The district did not go into detail about the incident.
—Rachel Fradette, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Apr. 2023
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Those forms of violence include those threatened with or subjected to conversion therapy, those who felt that they had been discriminated against, or those who experienced physical threat or harm in the past year.
—Tyler Santora, Parents, 1 May 2024
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Biden last year directed HHS to bolster protections for minors’ gender-affirming care and end conversion therapy.
—Sarah Owermohle, STAT, 28 Mar. 2023
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One created a legal loophole for gay conversion therapy.
—Laura Jedeed, The New Republic, 27 Mar. 2023
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Half a century later, the medical establishment is pushing a new kind of conversion therapy under the guise of transgender identity.
—Roy Eappen, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2023
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Iceland Iceland’s parliament banned conversion therapy in a unanimous vote.
—Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Aug. 2023
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According to the Movement Advance Project, in the 21 states where similar bans on conversion therapy are in place, religious organizations are not restricted from offering conversion therapy.
—Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 6 June 2023
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Four went into law, enacting bans on gender transitions for minors, student pronoun changes and gender affirmation surgery in prisons, as well as protecting religious conversion therapy.
—Marina Johnson, The Indianapolis Star, 6 June 2024
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This suggested persistence in conversion therapy practices, Meyer said.
—Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2023
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For example, one city may restrict conversion therapy in addition to anti-discrimination laws, while another may not specifically prohibit it.
—Jenna Barackman, Kansas City Star, 10 Apr. 2024
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Similarly, the conversion therapy ban builds on another Walz executive order.
—CBS News, 21 Apr. 2023
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On the legislative level, bans on conversion therapy should explicitly reference asexuality, Benoit says.
—Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
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On the legislative level, bans on conversion therapy should explicitly reference asexuality, Benoit says.
—Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2023
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For instance, asexual people are sometimes subjected to conversion therapy, a practice aimed at changing someone's sexuality or gender identity.
—Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2023
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The American Psychological Association also has weighed in against conversion therapy.
—Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2023
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