WASHINGTON, D.C., (December 2, 2014)—Today, the District of Columbia Council unanimously approved a bill that will protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth from the dangerous and discredited practice of conversion therapy. When signed into law, Washington, D.C. will become the third jurisdiction—behind California and New Jersey—to pass legislation protecting LGBT youth from practices that […]
Survivor Tells U.N. Committee Against Torture: “A Therapist Told Me I Was Sick”
At the U.N. Committee Against Torture, NCLR’s #BornPerfect campaign offered testimony resulting in the Committee addressing the issue of conversion therapy with the U.S. State Department for the first time in history.
Our Goal—End Conversion Therapy in Five Years
By Kate Kendell, Esq. No child should ever be hurt because of who they are. That’s why we started the #BornPerfect campaign to end conversion therapy across the country over the next five years. We need your financial support to make it happen. All attempts to change their sexual orientation or gender identity through conversion therapy […]
The Human Element: Making Conversion Therapy in the U.S. an International Human Rights Issue
By Sam Ames, #BornPerfect Campaign Coordinator & Staff Attorney There we were. Around the illustrious circular United Nations briefing tables at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, among the 70 human rights advocates from across the United States, the largest delegation in the history of the U.N.’s Committee Against Torture (CAT). Together, as leaders of the National […]
WATCH: #BornPerfect’s Sam Ames and Sam Brinton Testify Before U.N. in Geneva
The leaders of NCLR’s #BornPerfect campaign Sam Ames and Samuel Brinton testify in Geneva, Switzerland, before the U.N. Committee Against Torture and the U.S. Department of State to bring the facts about conversion therapy to help us bring this issue to the international stage.
NCLR Urges U.N. Committee Against Torture to End Conversion Therapy
By Sam Ames, #BornPerfect Campaign Coordinator & Staff Attorney This Tuesday, I will walk into the historic Palais de Nations in Geneva, Switzerland to meet with representatives of the United Nations and the U.S. Department of State as part of the National Center for Lesbian Rights’ #BornPerfect campaign to protect LGBT youth from conversion therapy, the dangerous […]