OTTAWA — (12-01-21) — Canada's House of Commons begins the holiday season by unanimously voting to ban LGBT conversion therapy with Bill C-4. Conversion therapy has been condemned by medical professionals in every civilized nation in the western hemisphere. The barbaric and debunked treatment to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity has been [...]
WASHINGTON D.C. — (09-14-21) — The Biden Administration's Justice Department on Tuesday announced a sweeping investigation into the Georgia state prison system plagued with an extreme culture of violence and neglect against LGBT inmates, staffing shortages and the alarming number of 44 inmate deaths by homicide since last year. Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke told [...]
OTTAWA — (03-11-20) — Canada's Justice Minister David Lametti introduced a Bill to the House of Commons that would make it illegal to practice conversion therapy on a minor. “Conversion therapy is a cruel practice that can lead to life-long trauma, particularly for young people,” David Lametti, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, [...]
RALEIGH, NC — (08-03-19) — North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper made history on Friday, when he signed executive order No. 97, banning state-sponsored conversion therapy funding on LGBTQ youths. Governor Cooper directed North Carolina's Department of Health and Human Services to cease the use of federal and state funds for the harmful and discredited practice [...]
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL — (07-18-19) — Israel’s education minister Rafi Peretz, has apologized for his controversial remarks about 'gay conversion therapy” and intermarriage among Diaspora Jews that drew worldwide backlash. Rafi Peretz, leader of a small right wing religious nationalist party, wrote in a letter to the head of the Jewish Agency on Tuesday that his [...]