conversion therapy

English

Noun

conversion therapy (countable and uncountable, plural conversion therapies)

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

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:conversion therapy

Translations

treatment

• Arabic: عِلَاج التَّحْوِيل m (ʕilāj at-taḥwīl)
• 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)
• Portuguese: terapia de conversão f
• Spanish: terapia de conversión f
• Swedish: omvändelseterapi (sv) c

Anagrams

• hyperconservation