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Can the Feds End LGBT Conversion Therapy?

CH-CH-CHANGES

With help from the FTC, LGBT advocacy groups might be able to stop dangerous conversion therapy by calling it something new: consumer fraud.

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Ending LGBT conversion therapy used to seem a long way off.

After the suicide of transgender teenager Leelah Alcorn, President Obama came out against it—but with Republicans in control of Congress, his power is limited.

Four states and the District of Columbia have banned attempts to change the sexual orientation or gender...

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