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The group says including the information can lead to stigmatization of transgender and nonbinary people.

A Mormon survivor of ex-gay therapy dropped this bombshell: Even though the Mormon church says it opposes conversion therapy, they pay for congregants to go through it.

Soon-to-be physicians want to advocate for legislation ending conversion therapy, train medical staff on sexual orientation and gender identity, and close the pay gap among other recommendations.

Scientists said that this will harm research on a variety of diseases, while the religious right said it was ending “checks for baby body parts.”

Sources say that he didn’t even recommend the trans military ban. But he’s defending it in Congress.

All the jurors were straight, and 11 of the 12 were white. Anyone who said something positive about LGBT people was not allowed to serve.

Sources say Defense Secretary James Mattis’ original report gave a thumbs up to trans people serving in the military, but Pence “overruled” him.

“If there is a secret to raising healthy children, it is to accept and focus on what they are, instead of what they’re not.”

The law bars providers from advertising or engaging in conversion therapy for those under 18.

CHICAGO — The American Medical Association on Monday said transgender people should be able to switch the sex designation on their birth certificates without having sex-change surgery. Most states make the operations a prerequisite, but a new AMA policy acknowledges that gender identity doesn’t always match a person’s birth anatomy.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin is leading a group of 85 House and Senate lawmakers criticizing what she’s says is the sluggish pace the nation’s top health officials have taken at reevaluating blood donation policies for gay men.

The American Medical Association, the largest association of physicians in the U.S., voted Tuesday to oppose a decades long ban by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which prohibits gay men from donating blood, reported ABC News.

The nation’s largest doctors’ group has agreed to join efforts to repeal the military’s ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy, Associated Press reports: The American Medical Association says the ‘don’t ask, don’t-tell’ law creates an ethical dilemma for gay service members and the doctors who treat them. The AMA also voted to declare that gay marriage […]