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Premier Jeremy Rockliff has told Liberal MPs they can vote freely on the Greens' bill to outlaw conversion practices in Tasmania. With Labor and crossbenchers backing it, one of Australia's last holdouts could finally act.
A demonstration outside Parliament Buildings at 10am and an open letter to every MLA. Eóin Tennyson's private member's bill would make Northern Ireland the first jurisdiction on these islands to criminalise conversion practices.
The Swiss Federal Council says conversion practices cause 'considerable harm' and wants a uniform federal law to replace a patchwork of cantonal bans — though parliament still has to act.
Copenhagen is putting 24 million kroner behind a 2026–2029 plan to address discrimination and mental health distress. Denmark ranks 5th on ILGA-Europe's Rainbow Map — but a promised conversion therapy ban from 2021 still hasn't happened.
Europe's number-one country for LGBTQ+ rights is fighting a two-front battle in 2026: a constitutional challenge to the Ley Trans from the right, and a landmark vote to make conversion therapy a crime.
The draft ban is trans-inclusive, carries up to five years in prison, and reaches practices arranged abroad. It's a genuine milestone — and it still has to survive consultation and a Commons vote.
After the Supreme Court struck down Colorado's 2019 conversion therapy ban, state lawmakers passed a new bill that targets the practice through a different legal door — and it now awaits the governor's signature.
EU institutions launched a synchronized pro-LGBTQ+ campaign ahead of Pride Month, promoting the new 2026-2030 Equality Strategy. Supporters and critics agree on one thing: it is unusually coordinated.
Brussels' long-awaited response to 1.2 million petition signatures landed on May 13. Ursula von der Leyen called the practice 'barbaric' and asked every member state to outlaw it. What she didn't do is propose a binding EU-wide ban.
Released May 5, the Holy See's synod study group report is the first official Vatican document to feature testimony from civilly married gay men and to describe reparative therapies as causing 'profound suffering.' It does not change doctrine — and that's the point.
If Brussels turns this week's parliamentary vote into a binding directive, six candidate countries will have to follow. Five of them have no ban on conversion practices at all.
MEPs voted on April 29 to endorse a citizen-led initiative calling for an EU-wide ban on conversion practices. The resolution is non-binding, but it puts the Commission on the clock — a formal response is expected May 18.
The European Commission has launched its second LGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy, a five-year roadmap targeting hate speech, conversion practices, employment discrimination, and legal gender recognition across all 27 member states.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Colorado's ban on conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ minors violates the First Amendment, a decision that could jeopardize similar laws in more than 20 states.
In an 8-1 ruling in Chiles v. Salazar, the Supreme Court struck down Colorado's conversion therapy ban on First Amendment grounds — and more than 20 states with similar laws are now in the crosshairs.
