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Brazilian feral judge Walmar Carvalho overled a 1999 cisn by the Feral Council of Psychology that forba psychologists om offerg wily discreded treatments which claims to cure gay people. "People prott agast the cisn of a Brazilian judge who approved gay nversn therapy Sao... *Government lays ban for five years*Prsure on Sunak to act*LGBTQ+ activists fear loophol*Campaigners divid over trans rightsBy Lucy MiddletonLONDON, July 20 (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - When Alex me out as gay, the 15-year-old’s parents issued a stark ultimatum: unrgo nversn therapy or clear out of the fay home the northern English cy of chose optn one and unrwent multiple ssns wh elrs om the fay’s Jehovah’s Wns ngregatn, seekg a ‘cure’ for homosexualy.

A ernment survey showed that more than half of Brons who had tried nversn therapy were offered through a relig group, almost 12% were signposted by a health re Ozanne, a gay evangelil her 50s who chairs the UK’s Ban Conversn Therapy Coaln, sought treatment her 20s and 30s, after fallg love wh a procs led to hospal admissn for a nervo breakdown.

IS GAY CONVERSN THERAPY LEGAL?

Conversn therapy, also known as ‘reparative therapy’ or the ‘gay cure, ’ is an extremely harmful practice which assum that cisgenr heterosexualy is the only ‘natural’ way to be, and that beg gay, bisexual, or trans is a disorr. Instead, they are signed to fd problems and pathology that are simply not there, to nfirm their own assumptns that beg gay is a disorr created childhood trma. Sadly, is reflective of the trsic homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia of society, as well as the unfortable realy that unsellors and psychotherapists are not aquately traed genr, sex, and relatnship diversi (GSRD).

In 2012, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) filed a nsumer d se agast Jews Offerg New Alternativ for Healg (JONAH) for “dulently claim[g] to provi servic that ‘nvert’ people om gay to straight” New Jersey.

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