{"id":4197,"date":"2025-12-10T19:46:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T19:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=4197"},"modified":"2025-12-10T19:46:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T19:46:05","slug":"gay-conversion-therapy-should-be-consigned-to-history-in-the-us-it-could-make-a-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2025\/12\/10\/gay-conversion-therapy-should-be-consigned-to-history-in-the-us-it-could-make-a-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay &#8216;conversion therapy&#8217; should be consigned to history. In the US, it could make a comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Despite being condemned by mental health organizations, the dangerous practice of <strong>conversion therapy<\/strong> could see a resurgence in the US. This rise is linked to a Supreme Court case challenging state bans and a broader political environment hostile to the LGBTQ+ community. Research consistently shows that subjecting youth to these practices leads to severe mental health consequences, including a heightened risk of suicide. The article argues the practice is based on the homophobic assumption that diverse gender identities and sexual orientations are illnesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> December 1, 2025. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/dec\/01\/gay-conversion-therapy-should-be-consigned-to-history-in-the-us-it-could-make-a-comeback\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite being condemned by mental health organizations, the dangerous practice of conversion therapy could see a resurgence in the US. This rise is linked to a Supreme Court case challenging state bans and a broader political environment hostile to the LGBTQ+ community. Research consistently shows that subjecting youth to these practices leads to severe mental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":4199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gender-equality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4200,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197\/revisions\/4200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}