Arabic-language conversion content still thrives on Facebook, where practitioners post to millions of followers through verified accounts
TMM Update Trans Day of Remembrance 2020
Ecuador: Organizations announce collection of signatures to veto the Health Code
The National Front for the Family together with other civil society organizations and religious groups announced yesterday in Guayaquil the beginning of the collection of signatures and mobilizations to request the total presidential veto of the Organic Health Code (COS), a norm that was approved by the National Assembly, last Tuesday, August 25.
Ecuador: Pro-life groups ask for a total veto of the COS and announce protests
Ecuador’s Assembly Approves Bill Furthering the Right to Health
Ecuador: Know seven important points of the Organic Health Code
ILGA-World launches toolbox to combat 'conversion therapies'
Panorama of the legal recognition of gender identity in the Americas
The American continent is characterized by being the most violent region towards people with Non-normative gender identities in the world. These cycles of violence, present in all areas of life of trans people, are intermingled with high levels of discrimination and stigmatization, resulting in lack of access to their civil, political, economic, social rights, cultural and environmental.
Out of the Margins
UN: Report on conversion therapy
The term “therapy”, derived from the Greek, denotes “healing”. However, practices of “conversion therapy” are the very opposite: they are deeply harmful interventions that rely on the medically false idea that LGBT and other gender diverse persons are sick, inflicting severe pain and suffering, and resulting in long-lasting psychological and physical damage.