Dr. Jessie Hillekens
@jessiehillekens.bsky.social
👩🎓 Asst. prof at Tilburg University
🧠 PhD in psychology
🌈 Expert on diversity
🧠 PhD in psychology
🌈 Expert on diversity
Revisions of paper this week!
Findings:
⭕Youth's life satisfaction declined during #COVID school closures
⭕Conflict with parents➡️steeper decline
⭕Warmth from #parents was protective, especially for youth with migration background & (pre)vocationally educated parents
#psy #science #devpsy #socpsy
Findings:
⭕Youth's life satisfaction declined during #COVID school closures
⭕Conflict with parents➡️steeper decline
⭕Warmth from #parents was protective, especially for youth with migration background & (pre)vocationally educated parents
#psy #science #devpsy #socpsy
September 18, 2025 at 8:21 AM
🌈The Tweede Kamer voted for a ban on #ConversionTherapy
✔️There is no #science support and it causes major #psych damage, particularly among youth
⚠️However: People can still undergo it 'voluntarily' and the ban still allows to push for 'caution' or 'reflection' ➡️ it can secretly continue
#lgbt
✔️There is no #science support and it causes major #psych damage, particularly among youth
⚠️However: People can still undergo it 'voluntarily' and the ban still allows to push for 'caution' or 'reflection' ➡️ it can secretly continue
#lgbt
September 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
🌈The Tweede Kamer voted for a ban on #ConversionTherapy
✔️There is no #science support and it causes major #psych damage, particularly among youth
⚠️However: People can still undergo it 'voluntarily' and the ban still allows to push for 'caution' or 'reflection' ➡️ it can secretly continue
#lgbt
✔️There is no #science support and it causes major #psych damage, particularly among youth
⚠️However: People can still undergo it 'voluntarily' and the ban still allows to push for 'caution' or 'reflection' ➡️ it can secretly continue
#lgbt
🤹Meet my personalities during one week of conference in Vilnius
Council member:
⏩Two meetings working on #diversity and inclusion in #devpsy
⏩Two presentations
Communication officer:
⏩Manage social media of #EADP
Scientist:
⏩Two symposium talks on #nonbinary youth
Friend:
⏩The one I failed😢❤️
Council member:
⏩Two meetings working on #diversity and inclusion in #devpsy
⏩Two presentations
Communication officer:
⏩Manage social media of #EADP
Scientist:
⏩Two symposium talks on #nonbinary youth
Friend:
⏩The one I failed😢❤️
September 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
🤹Meet my personalities during one week of conference in Vilnius
Council member:
⏩Two meetings working on #diversity and inclusion in #devpsy
⏩Two presentations
Communication officer:
⏩Manage social media of #EADP
Scientist:
⏩Two symposium talks on #nonbinary youth
Friend:
⏩The one I failed😢❤️
Council member:
⏩Two meetings working on #diversity and inclusion in #devpsy
⏩Two presentations
Communication officer:
⏩Manage social media of #EADP
Scientist:
⏩Two symposium talks on #nonbinary youth
Friend:
⏩The one I failed😢❤️
Reposted by Dr. Jessie Hillekens
While academic associations are supposed to represent us, they fail to do so and keep showing hypocrisy. Here is a petition to ISPP demanding recognition of the genocide and ending scholasticide and complicity in Palestine. Hold them accountable. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Petition: Demanding recognition of the genocide and ending scholasticide and complicity in Palestine
Esteemed colleagues,
We, the undersigned academics and scholars — including current and former members of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) as well as colleagues working in poli...
docs.google.com
September 4, 2025 at 5:40 AM
While academic associations are supposed to represent us, they fail to do so and keep showing hypocrisy. Here is a petition to ISPP demanding recognition of the genocide and ending scholasticide and complicity in Palestine. Hold them accountable. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Reposted by Dr. Jessie Hillekens
Hoe kan een partij die zelf de grootste regeringspartner was, verantwoordelijkheid droeg voor het gevoerde beleid én de val, en zelfs de minister van Asiel en Migratie leverde, zich nu weer presenteren als de redder in nood?
@lcjacobs89.bsky.social zoekt het uit 👇
www.sampol.be/2025/09/de-e...
@lcjacobs89.bsky.social zoekt het uit 👇
www.sampol.be/2025/09/de-e...
De electorale immuniteit van Wilders
Hoe kan een partij die zelf de grootste regeringspartner was, medeverantwoordelijkheid droeg voor het gevoerde beleid én de val, en nota bene zelfs de minister van Asiel en Migratie leverde, zich nu w...
www.sampol.be
September 5, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Hoe kan een partij die zelf de grootste regeringspartner was, verantwoordelijkheid droeg voor het gevoerde beleid én de val, en zelfs de minister van Asiel en Migratie leverde, zich nu weer presenteren als de redder in nood?
@lcjacobs89.bsky.social zoekt het uit 👇
www.sampol.be/2025/09/de-e...
@lcjacobs89.bsky.social zoekt het uit 👇
www.sampol.be/2025/09/de-e...
Wilders' image is harmful as it dehumanizes Muslims.
Dehumanization strips away individuality and #empathy, so that harm & violence feel justified - a tactic used in #propaganda throughout history.
What to do?
💡Build empathy
💡Inclusive 'us' instead of 'them'
💡Reject hateful imagery
#psy #science
Dehumanization strips away individuality and #empathy, so that harm & violence feel justified - a tactic used in #propaganda throughout history.
What to do?
💡Build empathy
💡Inclusive 'us' instead of 'them'
💡Reject hateful imagery
#psy #science
August 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Wilders' image is harmful as it dehumanizes Muslims.
Dehumanization strips away individuality and #empathy, so that harm & violence feel justified - a tactic used in #propaganda throughout history.
What to do?
💡Build empathy
💡Inclusive 'us' instead of 'them'
💡Reject hateful imagery
#psy #science
Dehumanization strips away individuality and #empathy, so that harm & violence feel justified - a tactic used in #propaganda throughout history.
What to do?
💡Build empathy
💡Inclusive 'us' instead of 'them'
💡Reject hateful imagery
#psy #science
What a day! From introducing kids who normally have little contact with the university to #science and breaking some #stereotypes of who can be a researcher with them 🧒 to my first TV interview on academic freedom & pressure on #diversity research 🎥 Watch on the news of Omroep Brabant tonight!
June 20, 2025 at 1:56 PM
What a day! From introducing kids who normally have little contact with the university to #science and breaking some #stereotypes of who can be a researcher with them 🧒 to my first TV interview on academic freedom & pressure on #diversity research 🎥 Watch on the news of Omroep Brabant tonight!
📢Evidence vs. Ego (30/30)
❌ “This cabinet is not racist.”
#Science:
#Racism = systemic harm based on ethnicity, such as #exclusion, unequal chances, and hate.
📌 Much like their policy….
A PM ruling for a man convicted of racism? Not convincing.
#psych #equality #HumanRights
❌ “This cabinet is not racist.”
#Science:
#Racism = systemic harm based on ethnicity, such as #exclusion, unequal chances, and hate.
📌 Much like their policy….
A PM ruling for a man convicted of racism? Not convincing.
#psych #equality #HumanRights
May 10, 2025 at 8:04 AM
📢Evidence vs. Ego (30/30)
❌ “This cabinet is not racist.”
#Science:
#Racism = systemic harm based on ethnicity, such as #exclusion, unequal chances, and hate.
📌 Much like their policy….
A PM ruling for a man convicted of racism? Not convincing.
#psych #equality #HumanRights
❌ “This cabinet is not racist.”
#Science:
#Racism = systemic harm based on ethnicity, such as #exclusion, unequal chances, and hate.
📌 Much like their policy….
A PM ruling for a man convicted of racism? Not convincing.
#psych #equality #HumanRights
📢Evidence vs. Ego (29/30)
❌“Why does #diversity have to be in my face all the time?”
#science:
Well, it’s not. #Black and #LGBTQIA+ characters in movies get less screen time, and even then they’re often stereotypes.
📊 Real #representation is still rare
Visibility ≠ #equality
#LGBT #BLM #psych
❌“Why does #diversity have to be in my face all the time?”
#science:
Well, it’s not. #Black and #LGBTQIA+ characters in movies get less screen time, and even then they’re often stereotypes.
📊 Real #representation is still rare
Visibility ≠ #equality
#LGBT #BLM #psych
May 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
📢Evidence vs. Ego (29/30)
❌“Why does #diversity have to be in my face all the time?”
#science:
Well, it’s not. #Black and #LGBTQIA+ characters in movies get less screen time, and even then they’re often stereotypes.
📊 Real #representation is still rare
Visibility ≠ #equality
#LGBT #BLM #psych
❌“Why does #diversity have to be in my face all the time?”
#science:
Well, it’s not. #Black and #LGBTQIA+ characters in movies get less screen time, and even then they’re often stereotypes.
📊 Real #representation is still rare
Visibility ≠ #equality
#LGBT #BLM #psych
📢Evidence vs. Ego (28/30)
❌“Transwomen shouldn't play women’s sports”
#science
📊No advantage after 1-2 years of gender-affirming hormone therapy
📉Trans athletes are underrepresented
⚠️It's about controlling women’s bodies - #trans and cis - and part of a broader anti-trans lobby
#TransRights #LGBT
❌“Transwomen shouldn't play women’s sports”
#science
📊No advantage after 1-2 years of gender-affirming hormone therapy
📉Trans athletes are underrepresented
⚠️It's about controlling women’s bodies - #trans and cis - and part of a broader anti-trans lobby
#TransRights #LGBT
May 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
📢Evidence vs. Ego (28/30)
❌“Transwomen shouldn't play women’s sports”
#science
📊No advantage after 1-2 years of gender-affirming hormone therapy
📉Trans athletes are underrepresented
⚠️It's about controlling women’s bodies - #trans and cis - and part of a broader anti-trans lobby
#TransRights #LGBT
❌“Transwomen shouldn't play women’s sports”
#science
📊No advantage after 1-2 years of gender-affirming hormone therapy
📉Trans athletes are underrepresented
⚠️It's about controlling women’s bodies - #trans and cis - and part of a broader anti-trans lobby
#TransRights #LGBT
📢Evidence vs. Ego (27/30)
❌“ #Muslims are anti- #LGBTQIA+”
#science:
📌 Religiosity matters more than religion
📌 #Inclusion promotes progressive attitudes
So spreading hate fuels the very conservatism they claim to oppose
Hypocrisy, especially when also aligning with anti-LGBTQIA+ rhetoric
#lgbt
❌“ #Muslims are anti- #LGBTQIA+”
#science:
📌 Religiosity matters more than religion
📌 #Inclusion promotes progressive attitudes
So spreading hate fuels the very conservatism they claim to oppose
Hypocrisy, especially when also aligning with anti-LGBTQIA+ rhetoric
#lgbt
May 7, 2025 at 8:22 AM
📢Evidence vs. Ego (27/30)
❌“ #Muslims are anti- #LGBTQIA+”
#science:
📌 Religiosity matters more than religion
📌 #Inclusion promotes progressive attitudes
So spreading hate fuels the very conservatism they claim to oppose
Hypocrisy, especially when also aligning with anti-LGBTQIA+ rhetoric
#lgbt
❌“ #Muslims are anti- #LGBTQIA+”
#science:
📌 Religiosity matters more than religion
📌 #Inclusion promotes progressive attitudes
So spreading hate fuels the very conservatism they claim to oppose
Hypocrisy, especially when also aligning with anti-LGBTQIA+ rhetoric
#lgbt
📢Evidence vs. Ego (26/30)
❌“The #immigration policies of minister Faber already work”
Immigration #science:
- Push factor: why people leave
- Pull factor: why people come
📉Push factors play a role in 74% of cases
📌Fewer asylum applications? The dictatorial regime in #syria fell (=push)
#psych
❌“The #immigration policies of minister Faber already work”
Immigration #science:
- Push factor: why people leave
- Pull factor: why people come
📉Push factors play a role in 74% of cases
📌Fewer asylum applications? The dictatorial regime in #syria fell (=push)
#psych
May 6, 2025 at 12:19 PM
📢Evidence vs. Ego (26/30)
❌“The #immigration policies of minister Faber already work”
Immigration #science:
- Push factor: why people leave
- Pull factor: why people come
📉Push factors play a role in 74% of cases
📌Fewer asylum applications? The dictatorial regime in #syria fell (=push)
#psych
❌“The #immigration policies of minister Faber already work”
Immigration #science:
- Push factor: why people leave
- Pull factor: why people come
📉Push factors play a role in 74% of cases
📌Fewer asylum applications? The dictatorial regime in #syria fell (=push)
#psych
Reposted by Dr. Jessie Hillekens
Recently did the annual walk through of our totally normal publishing system for my undergraduate research methods students. Never fails to boggle their minds.
May 5, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Recently did the annual walk through of our totally normal publishing system for my undergraduate research methods students. Never fails to boggle their minds.
📢Evidence vs. Ego (25/30)
❌“It is democratic because we were elected.”
🕊️ #LiberationDay special: Being elected ≠ act democratically.
#Democracy isn’t just majority vote, but freedom, #equality & protecting minority rights
Criticizing exclusion isn’t anti-democracy. It’s defending it.
#HumanRights
❌“It is democratic because we were elected.”
🕊️ #LiberationDay special: Being elected ≠ act democratically.
#Democracy isn’t just majority vote, but freedom, #equality & protecting minority rights
Criticizing exclusion isn’t anti-democracy. It’s defending it.
#HumanRights
May 5, 2025 at 8:23 AM
📢Evidence vs. Ego (25/30)
❌“It is democratic because we were elected.”
🕊️ #LiberationDay special: Being elected ≠ act democratically.
#Democracy isn’t just majority vote, but freedom, #equality & protecting minority rights
Criticizing exclusion isn’t anti-democracy. It’s defending it.
#HumanRights
❌“It is democratic because we were elected.”
🕊️ #LiberationDay special: Being elected ≠ act democratically.
#Democracy isn’t just majority vote, but freedom, #equality & protecting minority rights
Criticizing exclusion isn’t anti-democracy. It’s defending it.
#HumanRights
📢Evidence vs. Ego (24/30)
❌ “ #Education should be politically neutral.”
📚 Often code for ignoring #diversity.
But these approaches backfire.
📉 They worsen #inequality by ignoring structural barriers.
🔁 What works? Inclusive and equal education that values diversity.
#psych #science
❌ “ #Education should be politically neutral.”
📚 Often code for ignoring #diversity.
But these approaches backfire.
📉 They worsen #inequality by ignoring structural barriers.
🔁 What works? Inclusive and equal education that values diversity.
#psych #science
May 4, 2025 at 8:58 AM
📢Evidence vs. Ego (24/30)
❌ “ #Education should be politically neutral.”
📚 Often code for ignoring #diversity.
But these approaches backfire.
📉 They worsen #inequality by ignoring structural barriers.
🔁 What works? Inclusive and equal education that values diversity.
#psych #science
❌ “ #Education should be politically neutral.”
📚 Often code for ignoring #diversity.
But these approaches backfire.
📉 They worsen #inequality by ignoring structural barriers.
🔁 What works? Inclusive and equal education that values diversity.
#psych #science
📢Evidence vs. Ego (23/30)
❌ “Nonbinary identities are a phase.”
#science:
📊 They aren’t. Once #nonbinary youth learn it’s an option, they recognize themselves and don’t “go back” to binary option anymore.
Being #trans or #nonbinary is not a phase.
#enby #TransRights #psych #LGBT #LGBTQIA+
❌ “Nonbinary identities are a phase.”
#science:
📊 They aren’t. Once #nonbinary youth learn it’s an option, they recognize themselves and don’t “go back” to binary option anymore.
Being #trans or #nonbinary is not a phase.
#enby #TransRights #psych #LGBT #LGBTQIA+
May 3, 2025 at 9:11 AM
📢Evidence vs. Ego (23/30)
❌ “Nonbinary identities are a phase.”
#science:
📊 They aren’t. Once #nonbinary youth learn it’s an option, they recognize themselves and don’t “go back” to binary option anymore.
Being #trans or #nonbinary is not a phase.
#enby #TransRights #psych #LGBT #LGBTQIA+
❌ “Nonbinary identities are a phase.”
#science:
📊 They aren’t. Once #nonbinary youth learn it’s an option, they recognize themselves and don’t “go back” to binary option anymore.
Being #trans or #nonbinary is not a phase.
#enby #TransRights #psych #LGBT #LGBTQIA+
📢Evidence vs. Ego (22/30)
❌ “You can’t say anything anymore.”
Well, you can. But freedom of speech isn’t a free pass to say harmful things without consequence.
It protects your right to speak, but also others’ right to call it out.
#FreedomOfSpeech #Inequality #Democracy #discrimination #psych
❌ “You can’t say anything anymore.”
Well, you can. But freedom of speech isn’t a free pass to say harmful things without consequence.
It protects your right to speak, but also others’ right to call it out.
#FreedomOfSpeech #Inequality #Democracy #discrimination #psych
May 2, 2025 at 5:34 AM
📢Evidence vs. Ego (22/30)
❌ “You can’t say anything anymore.”
Well, you can. But freedom of speech isn’t a free pass to say harmful things without consequence.
It protects your right to speak, but also others’ right to call it out.
#FreedomOfSpeech #Inequality #Democracy #discrimination #psych
❌ “You can’t say anything anymore.”
Well, you can. But freedom of speech isn’t a free pass to say harmful things without consequence.
It protects your right to speak, but also others’ right to call it out.
#FreedomOfSpeech #Inequality #Democracy #discrimination #psych
📢Evidence vs. Ego (21/30)
❌ “Inclusive sex education is bad for kids.”
📚 Inclusive sex ed causes panic on the far-right. “Let kids be kids!”, Wilders claims.
#science:
1️ You can’t “make kids #queer”
2️ It improves mental health for #LGBTQIA+ youth
3️ It fosters #inclusion by peers
#psych #LGBT
❌ “Inclusive sex education is bad for kids.”
📚 Inclusive sex ed causes panic on the far-right. “Let kids be kids!”, Wilders claims.
#science:
1️ You can’t “make kids #queer”
2️ It improves mental health for #LGBTQIA+ youth
3️ It fosters #inclusion by peers
#psych #LGBT
May 1, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Reposted by Dr. Jessie Hillekens
Please help to protect Dutch academia! The universities threaten to cut international psychology programs which would be devastating not only in the Netherlands but worldwide!
#supportdutchpsychology
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#supportdutchpsychology
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April 30, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Please help to protect Dutch academia! The universities threaten to cut international psychology programs which would be devastating not only in the Netherlands but worldwide!
#supportdutchpsychology
openletter.earth/against-lang...
#supportdutchpsychology
openletter.earth/against-lang...
📢Evidence vs. Ego (20/30)
❌“Nonbinary identities are woke and elitist”
🌈Nope, exactly the opposite
📊Our study across 3 datasets, 2 countries (!) found #nonbinary youth were more likely to come from lower socioeconomic backgrounds & have a migration background
#science #enby #LGBTQIA+ #TransRights
❌“Nonbinary identities are woke and elitist”
🌈Nope, exactly the opposite
📊Our study across 3 datasets, 2 countries (!) found #nonbinary youth were more likely to come from lower socioeconomic backgrounds & have a migration background
#science #enby #LGBTQIA+ #TransRights
April 30, 2025 at 7:22 AM
📢Evidence vs. Ego (20/30)
❌“Nonbinary identities are woke and elitist”
🌈Nope, exactly the opposite
📊Our study across 3 datasets, 2 countries (!) found #nonbinary youth were more likely to come from lower socioeconomic backgrounds & have a migration background
#science #enby #LGBTQIA+ #TransRights
❌“Nonbinary identities are woke and elitist”
🌈Nope, exactly the opposite
📊Our study across 3 datasets, 2 countries (!) found #nonbinary youth were more likely to come from lower socioeconomic backgrounds & have a migration background
#science #enby #LGBTQIA+ #TransRights
📢Evidence vs. Ego (19/30)
❌“The people want this”
🔍A classic far-right line, but who are “the people"?And who aren't?
📌 #Populism paints one group with one opinion
⚠️Often used to pit “the people” against “the elite” to silence other opinions and target #Muslims or #LGBTQIA+ folks
#psych #science
❌“The people want this”
🔍A classic far-right line, but who are “the people"?And who aren't?
📌 #Populism paints one group with one opinion
⚠️Often used to pit “the people” against “the elite” to silence other opinions and target #Muslims or #LGBTQIA+ folks
#psych #science
April 29, 2025 at 8:52 AM
📢Evidence vs. Ego (18/30)
❌ “Muslims undermine #womensrights”
🔍 #science:
🧠 Views on gender roles are similar to other Dutch people, except around sexual norms (linked to religiosity, not religion)
⚠️ While far-right politicians blame #Muslims, they push more conservative norms
#immigration #psych
❌ “Muslims undermine #womensrights”
🔍 #science:
🧠 Views on gender roles are similar to other Dutch people, except around sexual norms (linked to religiosity, not religion)
⚠️ While far-right politicians blame #Muslims, they push more conservative norms
#immigration #psych
April 28, 2025 at 8:41 AM
📢Evidence vs. Ego (18/30)
❌ “Muslims undermine #womensrights”
🔍 #science:
🧠 Views on gender roles are similar to other Dutch people, except around sexual norms (linked to religiosity, not religion)
⚠️ While far-right politicians blame #Muslims, they push more conservative norms
#immigration #psych
❌ “Muslims undermine #womensrights”
🔍 #science:
🧠 Views on gender roles are similar to other Dutch people, except around sexual norms (linked to religiosity, not religion)
⚠️ While far-right politicians blame #Muslims, they push more conservative norms
#immigration #psych
📢Evidence vs. Ego (17/30)
❌ “Students should speak only Dutch in school.”
Nationalist policies in Dutch #education to ‘boost performance’:
📌 Headscarf bans
📌 Dutch-only
#Science:
📚 #Multilingualism helps learning.
🚫 These policies undermine learning.
🧩 Want success? Embrace #diversity.
#psych
❌ “Students should speak only Dutch in school.”
Nationalist policies in Dutch #education to ‘boost performance’:
📌 Headscarf bans
📌 Dutch-only
#Science:
📚 #Multilingualism helps learning.
🚫 These policies undermine learning.
🧩 Want success? Embrace #diversity.
#psych
April 27, 2025 at 8:47 AM
📢Evidence vs. Ego (17/30)
❌ “Students should speak only Dutch in school.”
Nationalist policies in Dutch #education to ‘boost performance’:
📌 Headscarf bans
📌 Dutch-only
#Science:
📚 #Multilingualism helps learning.
🚫 These policies undermine learning.
🧩 Want success? Embrace #diversity.
#psych
❌ “Students should speak only Dutch in school.”
Nationalist policies in Dutch #education to ‘boost performance’:
📌 Headscarf bans
📌 Dutch-only
#Science:
📚 #Multilingualism helps learning.
🚫 These policies undermine learning.
🧩 Want success? Embrace #diversity.
#psych
📢Evidence vs. Ego (16/30)
❌ “ #LGBTQIA+ people can be cured”
#Science:
🧠 #Queer identities are formed in the womb
📉 No science supports “curing.”
💔 Stigma causes harm.
⚠️ Yet, 3 of 4 Dutch ruling parties voted against a ban on #ConversionTherapy to ‘cure’ LGBTQIA+ people
#TransRights #psych #LGBT
❌ “ #LGBTQIA+ people can be cured”
#Science:
🧠 #Queer identities are formed in the womb
📉 No science supports “curing.”
💔 Stigma causes harm.
⚠️ Yet, 3 of 4 Dutch ruling parties voted against a ban on #ConversionTherapy to ‘cure’ LGBTQIA+ people
#TransRights #psych #LGBT
April 26, 2025 at 6:32 AM
📢Evidence vs. Ego (16/30)
❌ “ #LGBTQIA+ people can be cured”
#Science:
🧠 #Queer identities are formed in the womb
📉 No science supports “curing.”
💔 Stigma causes harm.
⚠️ Yet, 3 of 4 Dutch ruling parties voted against a ban on #ConversionTherapy to ‘cure’ LGBTQIA+ people
#TransRights #psych #LGBT
❌ “ #LGBTQIA+ people can be cured”
#Science:
🧠 #Queer identities are formed in the womb
📉 No science supports “curing.”
💔 Stigma causes harm.
⚠️ Yet, 3 of 4 Dutch ruling parties voted against a ban on #ConversionTherapy to ‘cure’ LGBTQIA+ people
#TransRights #psych #LGBT