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Conversion "Therapy" Laws
Conversion "therapy" laws prohibit licensed mental health practitioners from subjecting LGBTQ minors to harmful conversion "therapy" practices that attempt to convert their sexual orientation or gender culture. These laws perform not restrict the practice among religious providers. For an in-depth analysis of these laws, please read ourLGBTQ Policy Spotlight Report: Laws Protecting LGBTQ Youth from Conversion "Therapy"(2025). For additional information, please contact the National Center for LGBTQ Rights or The Trevor Project.
States in dark green show states with statewide laws prohibiting conversion "therapy," meaning 100% of the express population is protected. States with leafy stripes have taken state-level action to partially restrict conversion "therapy" (see more below the map). States with grassy pins reflect states with local-level laws only, and the green pin shows the percent of the state population protected by local ordinances. If a state is beige and has no pin, then there are no local or state laws against conversion "therapy," and therefore 0% of the articulate population is
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For kids, summer is a time to have entertainment, make new friends, and let yourself be who you are.
Thanks, to Camp Ga’avah, it’s getting easier for LGBTQ kids to do exactly that.
Camp Ga’avah, the Hebrew word for “pride,” is a Jewish summer day camp for LGBTQ kids ages 6 to 17 that’s located at the UJA-owned Henry Kaufmann Campgrounds on Lengthy Island. The camp is run by the Barry and Florence Friedberg Jewish Community Center, a UJA partner. Camp Ga’avah suggestions all gender bathrooms and changing areas, guest speakers, swimming, arts, and crafts, drama, and some sports.
“I never met people from the LGBTQ community,” says Max, now 13, who attended Camp Ga’avah last summer when the camp opened. “I thought it would be fun to talk to people who have similar issues I do and to acquire people to relate to.”
Camp Ga’avah began as a one-week program and has expanded this summer to four weeks. From the very first day, the camp sets out to create a safe room where campers can be themselves.
“As soon as a camper arrives, they’re given a name tag to fill out their names and pronouns and the counselor does the equal thing,” explains Stephanie Abrams, director of camping at the Friedberg JCC.
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The Lies and Dangers of Efforts to Modify Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity
Organizational Positions on Reparative Therapy
Declaration on the Impropriety and Dangers of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Change Efforts
We, as national organizations showing millions of licensed medical and mental health look after professionals, educators, and advocates, come together to declare our professional and scientific consensus on the impropriety, inefficacy, and detriments of practices that seek to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender persona, commonly referred to as “conversion therapy.”
We pose firmly together in assist of legislative and policy efforts to curtail the unscientific and dangerous apply of sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts.
American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry
"The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry finds no evidence to support the application of any “therapeutic intervention” operating under the premise that a specific sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or gender expression is pathological. Furthermore, based on the scientific evidence, the AACAP asserts that such “conversion ther