Conversion therapy Archives

SCOTUS Is Poised to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on So-called Conversion Therapy For Minors

On October 7, 2025, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Chiles v. Salazar, a case challenging Colorado’s law, which...

14th October 2025

The Progressive Rebranding of Conversion Therapy

Early in my connection with the trans community, it struck me that almost everyone I encountered shared my struggles...

27th August 2025

Understanding the Drive to Medically Transition as a Mental Disorder

Since 2017, I’ve immersed myself in the complex and often painful realities of gender dysphoria—through research, dialogue with leading...

9th July 2025

The Irish MoU on Conversion Therapy: A Concession amidst Ideological Persistence?

On Friday, 12 July 2024, three organisations – The College of Psychiatrists of Ireland, The Irish Association for Counselling...

8th August 2024

Breaking up Is Hard to Do: Why the UKCP Is Right to Leave the Memorandum of Understanding on Conversion Therapy

Introduction The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is one of the main leading professional associations of therapists within...

12th July 2024

The New Gay-Conversion Therapy: A Psychologist’s Perspective

Gay-conversion therapy is a thing of the past. It comprised psychological interventions intended to convert homosexuals into heterosexuals. Critics...

6th September 2023

Saving Psychotherapy from Conversion Therapy Bans

Genspect believes that governments should reject these new expansive conversion therapy bans that make the practice of conventional therapy...

28th February 2023

Genspect Explainer: Mermaids

Mermaids is a UK registered charity that was established in 1995 to support “transgender, nonbinary and gender-diverse children, young...

5th October 2022

Telling the Truth in a Time of Deceit (Part 2): Genspect’s Response to a Hit Piece

On April 2nd 2022 a hit-piece about Genspect director and psychotherapist Stella O’Malley was released by Lee Leveille of...

14th August 2022

Telling the Truth in a Time of Deceit (Part 1): Stella O’Malley’s Statement on Conversion Therapy

Certain trans activists have engaged in an extended campaign of online bullying against me and have inaccurately labelled me...

14th August 2022

Conversion Therapy: Not Yet Out of the Woods

On 10th May 2022, the long-anticipated Queen’s Speech took place, setting out the government’s legislative agenda for the coming parliamentary...

8th June 2022

“Trans Law” case brought against Spanish psychologist

This story was written by guest author Amy Holden. A Spanish psychologist who has never treated trans patients has...

25th May 2022

A response to openDemocracy: In defence of a gender-rational approach

Yesterday, we received an email asking us for comment on a piece in a UK outlet called openDemocracy. The...

25th March 2022

NZ’s conversion practices prohibition law: A wolf in wolf’s clothing

A commentary by Jan Rivers, Fully Informed. What Has Happened? Following a record 106,000 submissions, oral hearings conducted at...

8th March 2022

“Conversion Therapy”: Why is Ireland ignoring the experts?

We are very grateful to our Irish guest author for taking the time to write this piece. Insulin comas....

21st February 2022

Update on Canada’s conversion therapy bill

Written by Collin Wynter. UPDATE ON DECEMBER 9, 2021: On Tuesday, the Senate of Canada passed Bill C-4 without...

7th December 2021

Stella O’Malley testifies about New Zealand conversion therapy bill

On October 13, 2021, Genspect founder Stella O’Malley testified at a subcommittee hearing about New Zealand’s proposed Conversion Practices...

14th October 2021

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