The long lasting mental health effects of conversion therapy are well documented, but a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association reveals that it also has a demonstrated impact on the physical health of those subjected to such practices.

In alarming news from the United States, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Department of Health and Human Services secretary, has dispensed with decades worth of research and evidence from leading medical organisations to pander to the views of fringe far-right groups advocating for transgender youth to be ‘treated’ with conversion therapy.

South Australia has become the latest Australian jurisdiction to ban the harmful practice of conversion therapy, but the state’s new laws are among the weakest in the world.