conversion therapy

English

Noun

conversion therapy (countable and uncountable, plural conversion therapies)

1. (LGBT, pseudoscience) The use of psychiatric or psychological treatment to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of a person; used especially as an attempt to heterosexualize gay people.

Synonyms

• reparative therapy (more often used by supporters)
• reorientation therapy
• SOGICE

Translations

treatment

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 扭轉治療／扭转治疗 (niǔzhuǎn zhìliáo)

• Esperanto: konverta terapio, ripara terapio
• Finnish: eheytyshoito (fi), eheytys (fi)
• French: thérapie de conversion (fr) f, thérapie de réorientation sexuelle (fr) f, thérapie réparatrice (fr) f
• Hebrew: טִפּוּל הֲמָרָה (he) m (tipúl hamará)
• Spanish: terapia de conversión f

Anagrams

• hyperconservation