Anyone still pretending the Western Allies defeated (or even opposed) #fascism ought to look into #TefíaConcentrationCamp, set up by #Francoist #Spain on #ThisDayInHistory in 1954. #LGBTQ prisoners were used for slave labour, tortured, and subjected to violent #ConversionTherapy.

"A group of #Orthodox #rabbis from the #US and #Israel issued a strongly worded letter condemning discredited practices that try to “convert” #LGBTQ+ people to #heterosexuality — a rarity for an establishment that still largely sees #queer people as sinful.

The letter, which was drafted years ago but released earlier in January in Israel, includes the signatures of prominent #modernOrthodox rabbis, including Yitz Greenberg, Shmuly Yanklowitz and Daniel Sperber, as well as a number of female rabbis.

[...]

“We the undersigned,” it begins, “believe that it is forbidden according to #Halakhic principle and ethos, for anyone, including a #rabbi, #rabbanit, educator, or therapist to recommend to any person to undergo treatment for the purpose of changing a person’s #sexualorientation, commonly known as ‘#conversiontherapy. This is because conversion therapy is harmful, does not work, and because same-sex attraction is not a mental health problem.”

https://religionnews.com/2026/01/28/in-new-letter-modern-orthodox-rabbis-say-conversion-therapy-is-forbidden/

Mike Johnson lecturing the pope Is a blasphemy that LGBTQ+ people know all too well

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/opinion/mike-johnson-lectures-pope

Therapists Against Conversion #Therapy and #Transphobia (TACTT) "Shocking Treatment! Is the media erasing trans history?" #LGBTHistoryMonth guest post from Hel Spandler, professor at the University of Lancashire, for LGBTQ+ history month https://therapistsagainsttransphobia.org/2026/02/05/shocking-treatment/ #AversionTherapy #ConversionTherapy

Council of Europe votes to ban conversion therapy

https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/01/30/conversion-therapy-council-of-europe/

#LGBTQ #conversiontherapy #Europe #Republicans #MAGA #GOP #Trump #press

the Council of Europe will be voting to ban conversion therapy. This would be an incredibly important step to stop the rollback in the rights of LGBTQ+ people.
But Sex Matters is infiltrating the vote. They have set up a tool for transphobes to email the MPs that are part of the council, bullying them to uphold transphobic ideas and asking them to vote against a ban.
Email MPs and let them know they don’t have to bend down to Sex Matter’s transphobic threats, they can stand up for what’s right.
https://action.goodlawproject.org/stop-sex-matters-infiltrating-the-council-of-europe
#transphobia #ConversionTherapy #UK #CouncilofEurope

‘ #Conversiontherapy did nothing to get rid of my #trans -ness,’ survivors say

https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/01/28/conversion-therapy-survivors-open-up/

The Good Law Project

In just one week, the Council of Europe will be voting to ban conversion therapy. This would be an incredibly important step to stop the rollback in the rights of LGBTQ+ people.

But Sex Matters is infiltrating the vote. They have set up a tool for transphobes to email the MPs that are part of the council, bullying them to uphold transphobic ideas and asking them to vote against a ban.

https://action.goodlawproject.org/stop-sex-matters-infiltrating-the-council-of-europe

#ConversionTherapy #LGBTQ_plus #trans #politics

Court blocks #Michigan #ban on #conversiontherapy on #freespeech grounds

https://apnews.com/article/conversion-therapy-ban-michigan-91fa7a0bb2e89bd491cf5b0bc76dcd18

So here’s MY hypothetical, if there was a therapy, treatment or cure to conservatism, would Ross take it?
https://medium.com/prismnpen/if-there-was-a-cure-for-conservatism-would-they-take-it-b84e50a1a92d?sk=ccbf4508b911774d3b4adc8f95f862af

#LGBTQ #ConversionTherapy #TransRights #Conservatives #RossDouthat

Today in Labor History December 15, 1973: The American Psychiatric Association voted to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. In the 1950s and 1960s, some therapists used aversion therapy to "cure" homosexuality. Like in Anthony Burgess’s, “A Clockwork Orange,” they would show patients pictures of naked men while giving them electric shocks or drugs to make them puke. In the 1973 vote, 5,854 members voted to remove homosexuality from the DSM, while 3,810 voted to retain it. In a compromise, they agreed to remove homosexuality from the DSM, but replaced it with "sexual orientation disturbance" for people "in conflict with" their sexual orientation. They did not completely remove homosexuality from the DSM until 1987. And despite the overtly torturous nature of the therapy, as of today, only 8 U.S. states have banned it. And only a handful of nations have banned it (including Canada, Brazil, Ecuador, Spain, France, Germany, and Greece.)

#workingclass #LaborHistory #lgbtq #homophobia #transphobia #conversiontherapy #dsm #therapy #mentalhealth #torture #psychiatry #clockworkorange #books #authors #writers #fiction @bookstadon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jOnXjSNIiw

https://piped.video/watch?v=-jOnXjSNIiw

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=-jOnXjSNIiw

#uspol #politics #TimPool #MiloYiannopoulos #AnthonyDevolder #TimCast #GeorgeSantos #CharlieKirk #BennyJohnson #TheMajorityReport #TheMajorityReportWithSamSeder #SamSeder #MTG #MarjorieTaylorGreene #ConversionTherapy #ExGay #ExGayMovement #ReparativeTherapy #JosephNicolosi

Tucker Carlson and Milo Yiannopoulos spend two hours spewing homophobia and pseudo-science

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/carlson-yiannopoulos-homophobia

#SCoPed and #trans (and other marginalised) people - blog by #Therapists Against #ConversionTherapy and #Transphobia (#TACTT) https://therapistsagainsttransphobia.org/2025/12/04/scoped-and-trans-and-other-marginalised-people/

Noting that today is both World AIDS Day and the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' protest in Montgomery, Alabama, Rebecca Solnit says,

"I saw two radically different versions of what a quilt could be yesterday and yet they spoke to the same issues."

One was a display of quilts made by African-American women. The other was a digital display of the AIDS quilt.

She concludes:

#ConversionTherapy #LGBTQ #Trump #WorldAIDSDay #RosaParks #solidarity
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https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/solidarity-stitches-us-together-today-world-aids-day-is-also-the-70th-anniversary-of-rosa-parks-historic-protest/

"Twenty-three states have banned it for minors, according to the Movement Advancement Project.

Now, however, it is making a comeback."

Because Donald Trump. Because MAGA. Because a Supreme Court stacked with right-wing Catholic ideologues determined to give special privilege to white Christian nationalism in both its evangelical and Catholic iterations. Because the undermining of education. Because the captivity of social media by tech bros.

#ConversionTherapy #LGBTQ #Trump
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"Until recently, this medieval practice [i.e., "conversion" therapy for LGBTQ people] seemed destined for the dustbin of discredited psychological theories. National mental health associations have recommended that the practice be prohibited, because it’s based on the homophobic 'assumption that diverse sexual orientations and gender identities are mental illnesses', as the American Psychiatric Association puts it."

~ David Kirp

#ConversionTherapy #LGBTQ #Trump
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/01/gay-conversion-therapy-should-be-consigned-to-history-in-the-us-it-could-make-a-comeback

Erin Allday: Conversion therapy is quietly rebranding — and targeting #trans youths

#Conversiontherapy #pseudoscience
https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/conversion-therapy-trans-kid-21143330.php