Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice
Abstract
The note advocates for raising the minimum age for Sexual Orientation Change Efforts (SOCE) from eighteen to twenty-one, arguing that individuals under twenty-one lack the emotional maturity to consent to such therapies. It emphasizes the harmful effects of SOCE, supported by findings from psychological organizations, and proposes incremental legislative changes to eventually achieve a nationwide ban on conversion therapy.
Disciplines
First Amendment | Law | Legal Remedies | Psychiatry and Psychology | Sexuality and the Law
Recommended Citation
Sanam Assil,
Can You Work It? Or Flip It and Reverse It?: Protecting LGBT Youth from Sexual Orientation Change Efforts,
21
Cardozo J. Equal Rts. & Soc. Just.
551
(2015).
Available at:
https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/cardozoersj/vol21/iss2/9
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