Current Version
| Region | New York |
| Issue | Conversion therapy |
| Status | Ambiguous |
| Start Date | Feb 9, 2016 |
| End Date | Aug 27, 2018 |
| Description | Conversion Therapy is currently legal. No law currently bans it, despite organizations such as the American Psychological Association denouncing it. Though it's not actually ambiguous (It is in fact legal), this is the best indicator of the available options. |
| Sources | http://www.lgbtmap.org/equality_maps/profile_state/NY https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/06/20/cynthia-nixon-hits-out-at-cuomo-for-lack-of-progress-on-trans-rights-and-conversion-therapy/ |
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| Description | only regulated. State wide conversion therapy pan pending. it is illegal nationwide under the therapeutic fraud act signed under president Obama. Criminalization of this practice under A 3977 is pending in the New York State Senate. In certain cities it is criminalized. | Conversion Therapy is currently legal. No law currently bans it, despite organizations such as the American Psychological Association denouncing it. Though it's not actually ambiguous (It is in fact legal), this is the best indicator of the available options. |
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| Description | only regulated. State wide conversion therapy pan pending. it is illegal nationwide under the therapeutic fraud act signed under president Obama. Criminalization of this practice under A 3977 is pending in the New York State Senate. | only regulated. State wide conversion therapy pan pending. it is illegal nationwide under the therapeutic fraud act signed under president Obama. Criminalization of this practice under A 3977 is pending in the New York State Senate. In certain cities it is criminalized. |
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| End Date | Jul 25, 2018 | Jul 27, 2018 |
| Description | only regulated. State wide conversion therapy pan pending. it is illegal nationwide under the therapeutic fraud act signed under president Obama. Not criminalized in maine, New York. | only regulated. State wide conversion therapy pan pending. it is illegal nationwide under the therapeutic fraud act signed under president Obama. Criminalization of this practice under A 3977 is pending in the New York State Senate. |
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| End Date | Jul 16, 2018 | Jul 25, 2018 |
| Description | only regulated. State wide conversion therapy pan pending. it is illegal nationwide under the therapeutic fraud act signed under president Obama. | only regulated. State wide conversion therapy pan pending. it is illegal nationwide under the therapeutic fraud act signed under president Obama. Not criminalized in maine, New York. |
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| Value | Not banned | (REMOVED) |
| Special Status | (REMOVED) | Ambiguous |
| End Date | Jul 4, 2018 | Jul 16, 2018 |
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| End Date | Jun 20, 2018 | Jul 4, 2018 |
| Description | illegal since Decemeber 1, 2017. Including regulations. | only regulated. State wide conversion therapy pan pending. it is illegal nationwide under the therapeutic fraud act signed under president Obama. |
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| Value | (REMOVED) | Not banned |
| Special Status | Ambiguous | (REMOVED) |
| End Date | Jun 8, 2018 | Jun 20, 2018 |
| Sources | http://www.lgbtmap.org/equality_maps/profile_state/NY | http://www.lgbtmap.org/equality_maps/profile_state/NY https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/06/20/cynthia-nixon-hits-out-at-cuomo-for-lack-of-progress-on-trans-rights-and-conversion-therapy/ |
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| Value | Banned | (REMOVED) |
| Special Status | (REMOVED) | Ambiguous |
| End Date | Dec 2, 2017 | Jun 8, 2018 |
| Description | illegal since Decemeber 1, 2017 | illegal since Decemeber 1, 2017. Including regulations. |
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| Value | Not banned | Banned |
| End Date | Sep 7, 2016 | Dec 2, 2017 |
| Description | only cut funding of this practice. | illegal since Decemeber 1, 2017 |
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| Value | Banned | Not banned |
| Sources | No | http://www.lgbtmap.org/equality_maps/profile_state/NY |
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| Value | Not banned | Banned |
| Description | Still practiced. Just recently they cut funding of Conversion therapy. | No |
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| Sources | http://www.teenvogue.com/story/new-york-outlaws-conversion-therapy | No |
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| Start Date | (NONE) | Feb 9, 2016 |
| Sources | http://www.lgbtmap.org/equality_maps/profile_state/35 | http://www.teenvogue.com/story/new-york-outlaws-conversion-therapy |
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