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The Trump Administration’s Campaign

The U.S. Supreme Court appeared ready to side with a challenge on free speech grounds to a Colorado law banning psychotherapists from conducting "conversion therapy" that aims to change a minor's. Sign in here. The attempt to rebrand conversion practices as “therapy” is just another example of the Trump administration ignoring best-practice medicine when it doesn’t fit its agenda.

Slate spoke with someone who survived conversion therapy, and then made a podcast about a young woman who didn't. While not all of these bills will become law, they all cause harm for LGBTQ people. Chen, a devoutly religious teenager, had always felt different from other girls: She had, from a young age, felt a calling to be a nun.

When a year-old girl in Boulder, Colorado, named Alana Chen started keeping secrets from her family, it was under the advice of her Catholic priest. Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily.

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Mapping Attacks on LGBTQ

Copy Link Share Share Comment. Chen also had realized that she was attracted to other girls. Already a member? She sought advice from her priest, a controversial and firebrand traditionalist, and he gave her disastrous advice: She should not tell her family, who might encourage her toward sin by affirming her sexual orientation.

Send me updates about Slate special offers. The ACLU is tracking Anti-LGBTQ bills in the U.S. Choose a state on the map to show the different bills targeting LGBTQ Rights and take action. Presidential powers, LGBTQ rights and the role of race in elections are among a spate of high-profile issues before the Supreme Court as the justices take the bench Monday to begin a new term. .

Slate homepage. Inat age 24, Chen died by suicide. We encountered an issue signing you up.