More than 250 people were subjected to painful electric shocks, designed to change their sexuality and gender identity, in NHS hospitals between 1965 and 1973, the BBC has discovered. Three Electric ...

The suspected Afghan terrorist accused of gunning down National Guard troops just blocks from the White House struggled for years with the violence he saw as a part of a notorious CIA-backed ...

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Oct. 7 in Chiles v. Salazar, a challenge to Colorado’s 2019 law prohibiting licensed health care professionals from providing so-called conversion ...

A popular internet cartoon depicts a young woman standing in front of a priest. “Father, I’m lesbian,” she says. The priest responds, “Ask God for help to cure you from that sin!” The woman falls to ...

The Trump administration’s recent attacks on transgender people are the latest effort in a decades-long attempt by the far right to mainstream conversion practices—even though they have been ...

Conversion therapy ‒ the practice of attempting to alter someone's sexual orientation or gender identity through a variety of methods ‒ has long been debunked by scientists, doctors and survivors ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 7 is debating whether a Colorado ban on "conversion therapy" for gay and transgender minors violates a therapist's free speech, in other words, a fairly new ground for ...

The US Supreme Court heard a case Tuesday that will determine whether a Colorado law that prohibits licensed mental health professionals from providing conversion “therapy” to minors is constitutional ...

As more young people identify as transgender, a fight has re-emerged over therapy that questions their gender identities. By Amy Harmon Since at least a decade ago, a rare consensus has prevailed on a ...

CLEVELAND -- As Cuyahoga County banned “conversion therapy” for minors and vulnerable adults this week, an Ohio legislator is moving to enact a similar ban statewide. Programs that seek to change a ...

New York developers are moving fast to embrace an unlikely source for badly needed housing: hotels that until recently housed migrants. More than a dozen former shelters are being eyed for residential ...