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Ninth Circuit panel to hear appeal of California law banning "ex-gay therapy"

SDGLN Staff
April 17th, 2013

SAN FRANCISCO – The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today will hear the challenge to California’s law that bans “ex-gay therapy” for minors.

Senate Bill 1172 was signed into law last fall by Gov. Jerry Brown, who praised the measure for protecting LGBT young people from dangerous practices called conversion therapy and reparative therapy. The therapy uses shame, verbal abuse and same-sex aversion techniques, and the success rate is considered nil.

California appeals temporary hold on law banning "ex-gay" therapy for minors

SDGLN Staff
January 3rd, 2013

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Gov. Jerry Brown and the Medical Board of California have appealed a district judge’s injunction that temporarily blocks the state law banning “ex-gay” therapy for minors.

State Attorney General Kamala Harris filed the appeal on Wednesday with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.

California governor appoints lesbian to Superior Court

SDGLN Staff
December 29th, 2012

OAKLAND, Calif. – Gov. Jerry Brown has appointed a lesbian to serve on the Superior Court bench in Alameda County.

Berkeley attorney Kim Colwell, 54, was selected Thursday and becomes the first lesbian named to serve on the Alameda County Superior Court.

Appeals court temporarily blocks California law banning "ex-gay" therapy

SDGLN Staff
December 22nd, 2012

SAN FRANCISCO -- The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday temporarily delayed the start date of a new California law that protects LGBT youth from therapists who try to change their sexual orientation despite warnings by medical experts that these discredited practices put youth at risk of serious harm.

The new law was set to take effect on Jan. 1, 2013.

House resolution would protect LGBT youth from "ex-gay" therapy

SDGLN Staff
November 28th, 2012

WASHINGTON -- Congresswoman Jackie Speier today introduced the landmark “Stop Harming Our Kids” resolution, which calls on states to protect LGBT youth from dangerous and discredited practices by mental health professionals who falsely claim to be able to change their sexual orientation or gender identity.

These practices have been rejected as ineffective and harmful by every leading medical and mental health organization in the country.

UPDATED: Lesbian attorney appointed to San Diego County Superior Court

SDGLN Staff
November 24th, 2012

SAN DIEGO – A prominent lesbian attorney has been appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown to fill a vacancy on the San Diego County Superior Court.

Paula S. Rosenstein will replace Judge Linda B. Quinn, who retired.

Rosenstein is a shareholder at Rosenstein Wilson and Dean PLC, where she has been an attorney since 1997. She has been in law practice since 1987.

EQCA and NCLR move to defend law protecting LGBT youth from reparative therapy

SDGLN Staff
October 20th, 2012

SAN FRANCISCO -- Late Friday, the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) and the law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson filed court papers seeking to intervene in a federal lawsuit challenging the new California law protecting LGBT young people from dangerous and potentially deadly psychological abuse.

Philly lawmaker introduces bill to ban reparative therapy for minors

LGBTQ Nation Staff Reports
October 15th, 2012

HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Pennsylvania State Rep. Babette Josephs (D-Philadelphia) has introduced a bill that would ban mental health providers from offering "gay-to-straight" reparative therapy for minors.

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RGOD2: Relegating “ex-gay” therapy “to the dustbin of quackery”

The Rev. Canon Albert Ogle - SDGLN Contributor
October 5th, 2012

California Gov. Jerry Brown made such a delicious comment -- “to the dustbin of quackery” -- when he signed Senate Bill 1172 (limiting sexual orientation conversion treatment for minors) into law on Sept. 29. Effective Jan. 1, California will become the first state to ban “ex-gay” therapy for minors with moves in New Jersey to follow suit.

Immediately, the Religious Right fought back with legal threats to repeal the law as unconstitutional while others claimed the bill was the work of Satan. Fox News was so troubled that it failed to report the law at all!

A burning question: Is heterosexuality illegal in California?

Don Terry - SPLC Hatewatch
October 4th, 2012

The headline is sensational and does what headlines are supposed to do – it grabs your attention:

“California Bans Heterosexuality.”

After my initial shock, I settled down and read the story under the headline and quickly learned, to my great relief, that the Golden State hasn’t really banned heterosexuality – at least not yet.

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