Conversion Therapy in Colorado
Colorado law presently prohibits licensed physicians who specialize in psychiatry and mental health care providers from engaging in conversion therapy with anyone under 18 years old. As explained by the Human Rights Campaign, conversion therapy involves a “range of dangerous…
Woodhull Freedom Foundation and Allies Respond to UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls
Update 5/6/2025: On May 5, 2025, Woodhull Freedom Foundation sent additional input to Reem Alsalem, the United Nations Special Rapporteur (SR) on Violence Against Women and Girls to inform her forthcoming report "Forms of Sex-Based Violence Against Women and Girls:…
The Reinstated Global Gag Rule
Trump is back in office (which perhaps bears no reminding) – and with that come his draconian policies, both old and new, including the anti-abortion policy known as the global gag rule. The global gag rule itself is some 40…
Criminalizing Sex Work Does Not Improve Safety or Public Health
Criminalization of sex work is often falsely believed to improve societal health, minimize sex trafficking, and keep sex workers safe. However, criminalization worsens these outcomes by driving both sex workers and trafficking victims underground, where they experience more violence, fewer social services, and less access to adequate healthcare. Decriminalization would be far more effective at ensuring sex workers' physical safety, economic stability, and physical and mental health.