WASHINGTON -- Congresswoman Jackie Speier today introduced the landmark “Stop Harming Our Kids” resolution, which calls on states to protect LGBT youth from dangerous and discredited practices by mental health professionals who falsely claim to be able to change their sexual orientation or gender identity.

These practices have been rejected as ineffective and harmful by every leading medical and mental health organization in the country.

LONDON -- Culture Secretary and Minister for Women and Equalities Maria Miller has responded to a parliamentary question on gay conversion therapy by instructing Health Minister Norman Lamb to outline the government’s official position.

It was after Diane Johnson, the Labour MP for Kingston upon Hull North, asked Miller for her views on the subject in reference to counselors and psychotherapists who have sought to provide the discredited medical practice.

CALGARY, Canada -- Canadian psychiatrist Aubrey Levin is to stand on trial next Wednesday, in Calgary, Canada for sexually assaulting 10 male patients.

The prosecution represents gay patients, who were mostly prisoners that were assigned by the Canadian justice system for treatment.

Aubrey Levin, infamously known as "Dr. Shock," has subjected hundreds of gay and lesbian soldiers and conscientious objectors in apartheid era South Africa to electric shocks "therapy" in an attempt to "cure" them of their sexuality and "deviant" ideas.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California Gov. Jerry Brown made history late Saturday night by signing a landmark bill that will protect LGBT youth from psychological abuse by deceitful mental health professionals who falsely claim to be able to change their sexual orientation or gender expression.