Conversion therapy is not only ineffective at its purported goal, but also only serves to amplify psychological distress.

Leading Off: The U.S. Supreme Court prepares to see a case on conversion therapy bans tomorrow, campaigning on an anti-trans platform is notably unpopular, and some states push to ease restrictions on transgender Americans updating their documents. Our top stories starting out the week in trans news.

A pipeline of pseudoscience funded by powerful right-wing hate groups has undermined medical truths with the help of big media.

Gender exploratory therapy is the newest face of conversion therapy. A trans investigator went undercover to share an inside look at the tactics used by its manipulative providers.

“For millennia these plants or fungi have been used to treat things like depression.”

Shape Shifter is a detransitioner suing Fenway Health for facilitating his transition. He claims providers should have known he was acting on internalized homophobia.

An independent investigation found no basis for the claim two teachers tricked a child into identifying as trans.

Some anti-trans activists promote talk therapy as the first or best treatment for gender dysphoria. In addition to not being evidence based, this approach relies on a common misunderstanding of talk therapy as benign and harmless.

Far more dangerous and destructive than detransition activists are anti-trans activist parents whose refusal to accept their children is correlated with the worst outcomes imaginable.

A conversion therapist gave a ludicrously long timeline for regret, allowing her to disbelieve trans people who say they have no regrets even a decade after transitioning.