Columbia City Council is again scheduled to vote on whether to take the first step toward striking down the city’s conversion ...

Columbia officials are poised to vote on repealing its conversion therapy ban at a special called council meeting on May 27 ...

Columbia currently bans licensed therapists from offering conversion therapy. Attorney General Alan Wilson has called that policy unconstitutional.

The Columbia City Council agreed May 20 to delay a vote over whether to repeal a ban on conversion therapy amid pressure from ...

Researchers noted that while conversion therapy has been shown to lead to “detrimental psychological effects” including “heightened risk of depression, anxiety, and suicidality,” theirs is likely the ...

A new study claims that being subjected to conversion therapy may lead to high blood pressure and increased heart ...

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Columbia City Council will take a first vote Tuesday on a new ordinance that would repeal the city’s ban on conversion therapy.

Conversion therapy was tied to higher systolic and diastolic BP and systematic inflammation levels. Researchers underlined the need to implement interventions and bans against conversion therapy.

The findings “support bans on (conversion therapy) and enforcement of existing bans to eventually eliminate the adverse health consequences associated with these practices,” researchers concluded.

The findings “support bans on (conversion therapy) and enforcement of existing bans to eventually eliminate the adverse health consequences associated with these practices,” researchers concluded.