Gaylesta - The Psychotherapist Association for Gender and Sexual Diversity

20/06/2025

19/06/2025

Support Trans Youth Healthcare Rally! Gaylesta is co-sponsoring this important rally on June 26th, Thursday evening at 6pm, in San Francisco at the SF City Hall Steps (at Polk). Bring your signs, voices, love and rage. Please pass this post on so that we have a good turnout for this valuable action.

12/06/2025

Join us at Page Mill Winery in Livermore for a delicious Twilight Tasting event on June 26th 4:30-8pm. 10% of tasting fees and wine you buy will be donated to Gaylesta's advocacy efforts. Thank you to Page Mill Winery for this beautiful opportunity to be a part of your community events.

05/06/2025

https://www.yahoo.com/news/utah-lawmakers-said-gender-affirming-000351628.html

When Utah Republicans passed a ban on gender-affirming health care for children and teens in 2023, they argued it was needed to protect vulnerable kids from treatments that could cause long-term harm. Years later, the results of a study commissioned under the same law contradict that claim, and the....

30/05/2025

https://fair.org/home/the-hhs-report-was-put-out-to-give-cover-to-oppose-transgender-healthcare/

"What we have is another example of the relentless pseudoscience coming out of this healthcare department under RFK Jr."

15/05/2025

https://glaad.org/smsi/2025/platform-scorecard/

The 2025 SMSI Platform Scorecard consists of twelve indicators that draw on best practices and guidelines from the Ranking Digital Rights (RDR) Big Tech Scorecard.

13/05/2025

https://www.them.us/story/cass-review-gender-affirming-care-youth-bmc-medical-research-methodology-journal

The Cass Review, a major influence on anti-trans policy, reportedly contains “methodological flaws and unsupported claims.”

12/05/2025

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/05/i-took-my-son-to-conversion-therapy-heres-when-i-knew-it-was-an-awful-mistake/

He cried for twenty-four hours afterward. I had never seen Scott so sad in his life.

03/05/2025

https://time.com/7281894/new-hhs-report-exploratory-therapy-transgender-youth/

"Despite the report’s claims, this is the same harmful practice of conversion therapy, just using friendlier language."

30/04/2025

https://www.washingtonblade.com/2025/04/27/shame-sex-attraction-book-review/

New book uncovers horror, unexpected humor of discredited practice

11/04/2025

https://www.today.com/popculture/bowen-yang-converstion-therapy-rcna200444

"Identity is a really fickle thing," he said.

13/03/2025

This is an important decision to watch. Thus far, the Supreme Court has denied hearing these cases, but now, they will hear a case of a Colorado therapist who is claiming her free speech rights are being denied for not being able to use so-called "conversion therapy" to change sexual orientation or gender identity.

The US Supreme Court’s decision to hear a Colorado therapist’s suit over a state law barring her from counseling minor patients about their sexual orientation or gender identity has the potential for far-reaching effects on professional speech, scholars say.