Sentences with phrase «gay conversion therapy for»

The New York Senate has blocked two bills passed by the Assembly last week — one banning gay conversion therapy for minors, as well as the Gender Expression Nondiscrimination Act (GENDA).

Languishing in the Senate are bills to ban toxic chemicals in children's toys and outlaw gay conversion therapy for minors.

Maryland's House yesterday passed a ban on gay conversion therapy for minors 95 - 27 which had already passed the Senate.

New York State Legislator Burke's not - so - subtle reference to the vice president - elect would ban gay conversion therapy for minors within Erie County.

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While we were so busy with Prop 8, Chick Fil A, DOMA, and Rick Perry's strange idea of sniffing feces for gay conversion therapy we let the hate and ignorance spewed by politicans and some religious groups become our definition in the debate and therefore we are accountable for the evils which have been done to them.

When he ran for Congress in 2000, Pence proposed transferring any HIV - AIDS prevention funding toward gay conversion therapy.

«Every mental health organization in the country disapproves of conversion therapy,» said Shurka, 29, a New York City resident who travels the country to lobby for efforts to ban gay conversion therapy as part of the #BornPerfect campaign.

Kennedy was endorsed by the Stonewall Democrats of Western New York, who cited in a statement his support for the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act and for outlawing so - called gay conversion therapy.

Sen. Brad Hoylman is releasing a report on the harm produced by so - called gay «conversion therapy» — a controversial method of «treating» young people in an effort to «cure» them of their preference for members of the same sex.

The lobbying strategy for this bill has employed constituents in lawmakers» districts who have personal — and often rather harrowing — experiences with gay conversion therapy.

The federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration released a report calling for an end to the practice of «conversion therapy» for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth.

Since the equality vote Hoylman, Assemblywoman Deborah Glick (D - Manhattan) and a host of other Democratic legislators have tried to pass GENDA, a bill guaranteeing protections for non-gender-conforming individuals, and a bill to ban gay conversion therapy — a debunked process by which therapists use talk therapy, apply shock treatment or treat the individual as though they suffer an addiction akin to alcohol or drug dependence.

Advocates and Democrats have tried for years to pass the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA)-- legislation granting protections in law to gender - nonconforming individuals — and a ban on gay - conversion therapy.

Joel Edgerton and Lucas Hedges also appeared for conversion - therapy drama «Boy Erased,» in which Hedges plays a teenager forced by his parents to submit to therapy after he reveals that he's gay.

Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman play his parents who out him and Jared is forced to attend conversion therapy sessions or be shunned by his family and parish for being gay.