Germany is the latest country to ban conversion therapy for minors. The country's parliament passed a bill May 7 outlawing the practice of attempting to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity for minors and for adults who have been forced, threatened, or deceived to undergo the controversial treatment.
Conversion therapy has been widely debunked by major medical associations in the U.S., U.K., and elsewhere. German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union joined the