Minnesota is the latest state to move toward making so-called 'conversion therapy' illegal
It's one of 39 states to introduce bills on conversion therapy, a widely discredited practice that seeks to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity. Twenty-four states have introduced such bills just this year, according to The Trevor Project, a nonprofit organization named for the 1994 short film"Trevor" that works on suicide prevention among LGBTQ youth.
'A legal form of abuse': Conversion therapy is lurking in the shadowsBrinton says that people often wrongly assume that the conversion therapy is something that no longer happens. But the calls coming in to The Trevor Project indicate otherwise."We at the Trevor Project hear from a survivor of conversion therapy every single week," they said."They genuinely call us because they're in crisis.
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