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In a 10-page executive order issued on June 15, President Joe Biden declared war on conversion therapy and pledged ...

The county and city sought a rehearing before the full Atlanta-based court.

Mike Freer said: "When senior colleagues had throwaway comments, vilifying the trans community, that was simply not acceptable."

The City of Medford has lifted the freeze of its grant to Set Free Ministries.

Speculation is abound about who may become the next leader of the Conservative Party and by extension the next Prime Minister of the UK.

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And said, you know, i found this book when i was 16 and it helped me think through these thoughts. even one email i got from one student, when the book came out in 2016, he said that he found a book and he had wanted to commit suicide and when he read the book he no longer wanted to. which is such a -- to get that email right when your book comes out, when this book came out in 2016, no one was really talking about conversion therapy. there are very few fans in the united states. >> because peop...

Biden signed an executive order aimed at drying up federal funding for conversion therapy. its not an outright federal ban them. a study backed by the trevor project, an lgbtq anti-suicide advocacy group, found that around 600 and $50 million is spent on conversion practices every year. this number includes payments for many private insurance companies, as well as medicaid. yeah, medicaid funds gay conversion therapy in this country. this map shows the only states in the united states that fully...

And how much that occurred to you when you are struggling through all of this? >> i read a lot about this in the book. i was very suicidal before even going at a conversion therapy. and they conversion therapy as sort of like a crucible that builds on all the horrible feelings you have as a gay kid growing up in the south. and a lot of stereotypes that exist. we were seated with people in therapy that were dealing with these ideology, with pedophilia, with all these other issues that should have...

I would just kind of marriage to animals, you know? and people laugh. maybe theyre like, thats a weird uncle. but then im sitting there next to someone dealing with these reality and being told that its the same thing. which is incredibly harmful, you cant recover from that. >> youre an educator now. and im a business journalist, so i see the $650 million that we barely spent on conversion therapy. from insurance companies and medicaid, which meant that more money was spent than that. was there ...