Virginia Agrees Not to Fully Enforce State Law Banning Conversion Therapy for LGBTQ+ Minors

Court partly reverses Virginia ban on conversion therapy

There is no evidence that conversion therapy is effective. In fact, studies show it can actually be psychologically damaging. But Virginia just brought it back.

Virginia court blocks ban on therapy for unwanted homosexual inclinations, gender confusion

The Virginia Department of Health has agreed not to prosecute Christian counselors who offer talk therapy for minors to overcome unwanted homosexual inclinations and gender confusion.

Virginia ditches speech code for counselors as SCOTUS ramps up gender ideology reviews

Miyares signs off on consent decree that nullifies Northam's ban on "conversion therapy" for minors - talking through gender confusion - amid Supreme Court flurry. Michigan's ban in cross hairs of libertarians, Catholics, Muslims.

In Disheartening Reversal, Virginia Is Once Again Allowing Forms of Conversion Therapy

This came after a consent degree from The Family Foundation, a Christian advocacy group that has claimed Virginia must return to “right-minded thinking."

Oklahoma bipartisan nonprofit relaunches to advocate for LGBTQ+ issues

OKLAHOMA CITY — LGBTQ+ supporters are relaunching a bipartisan advocacy group in an effort to provide a more centrist conversation amid increasingly hateful rhetoric.

Va. court allows conversion therapy despite law banning it

In 2020, the state of Virginia had banned the practice of conversion therapy, but on Monday, a county judge ruled the ban violates the Virginia Constitution and Religious Freedom Restoration Act, allowing the therapy to start once more. The conversion therapy ban, which can be seen in Va. Code § 54.1-2409.5 and 18VAC115-20-130.14, was overturned on June 30 as a result of two Christian counselors who argued that their — and all Virginia parents’ …