Conversion Therapy

Estoy especialmente orgulloso de los habitantes de Utah que son conservadores y religiosos y que están dispuestos a sentarse a conversar y realmente ayudarnos a encontrar puntos en común, dijo Troy Williams, el director ejecutivo saliente de Equality Utah.

"I'm most proud of Utahns who are conservative and religious and who are willing to come to the table and actually help us find common ground," said Troy Williams, the outgoing executive director of Equality Utah.

While their motivations are different, the political polar opposites were able to both agree to support a bill that codifies a ban on conversion talk therapy.

A host of medical experts has rejected the practice — aimed at changing a patient's sexual orientation — as "futile and destructive." In Utah, the ban took effect with a regulatory change Tuesday.

Wednesday morning, Jan. 22, 2020DREAMers Bid For Utah BarThe public comment period closes Thursday on a proposed rule that would allow certain immigrants…

Last week, Utah Governor Gary Herbert and leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints came to an agreement on banning conversion therapy…

Wednesday evening, November 27, 2019Note: KUER will not publish News Briefs on Thursday, November 28 because of Thanksgiving Day. We wish you a safe and…

Updated 12:21 p.m. MST, 11/27/19LGBTQ+ activists and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have come together on a proposal to ban conversion…

Gov. Gary Herbert says a proposed rule to ban the practice of conversion therapy on LGBTQ youth may require some fine-tuning after it was met with…

On the heels of Colorado becoming the 18th state to ban “conversion therapy” earlier this year, Utah’s debating the widely discredited practice meant to…

The effort to change a young person’s sexual orientation with therapy may soon be prohibited for psychologists in Utah.Thursday night, the Utah…

Gov. Gary Herbert has directed state regulators to create new rules for monitoring conversion therapy, a widely discredited practice intended to alter a…