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NCLR’s #BornPerfect campaign is a national effort aimed at ending conversion therapy in the next five years by passing laws across the country to protect LGBT youth, fighting in courtrooms to ensure their safety, and raising awareness about the serious harms caused by these dangerous practices. The campaign is managed by Samantha Ames, an attorney at NCLR who focuses on conversion therapy and youth issues.

“The time is long overdue for the United States to address the severe harms inflicted on young LGBT people and their families by purveyors of these dangerous and discredited practices,” said Ames. “Persuading the Committee Against Torture to take up the issue of conversion therapy on the international stage has the potential to save the lives of countless LGBT youth in the United States and around the world. Many of the same groups who advocate in favor of conversion therapy in the United States have supported laws in other countries criminalizing LGBT people, such as the ‘Kill the Gays’ bill in Uganda. These laws are often linked with attempts to ‘cure’ sexual orientation or gender identity, whether by coercion or force. Conversion therapy is damaging our human rights record both at home and around the world and creating a crisis the United Nations can and should address this November.”

Read the full press release here: http://www.nclrights.org/press-room/press-release/nclrs-bornperfect-campaign-forms-advisory-committee/

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Episode: Gay-Straight Therapy, Part 1
Episode: Gay-Straight Therapy, Part 2
Episode: Gay-Straight Therapy, Part 3
Episode: Gay-Straight Therapy, Part 4
Episode: Gay-Straight Therapy, Part 5

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A survivor of so-called “reparative therapy” tells us why it’s imperative California pass the first law banning the often-harmful practice.

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COIL Founder Peter Drake tells his own story of abuse at the hands of a “conversion therapy” specialist in support of a California bill that would prohibit subjecting minors to these practices.

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