Gaylesta - The Psychotherapist Association for Gender and Sexual Diversity

12/22/2025

This is an hour long podcast explaining the dangers of what's been called Gender Exploratory Therapy and now called Therapy First. Well worth a listen:

A relatively new and controversial therapeutic approach for people with gender dysphoria is being recommended by the Trump administration. It sounds reasonable enough on paper. But is Gender Exploratory Therapy just a rebrand of conversion therapy?

12/20/2025

https://gaylesta.org/advocacy-updates/13574885

Gaylesta is the Psychotherapist Association for Gender and Sexual Diversity. We provide mental health services including therapist referrals, education and consultation.

12/19/2025

No pause without cause!

Join us in urging Kaiser, Stanford, UCSF, and Sutter to continue providing life-saving gender-affirming care to youth after a recent anti-trans bill was passed in the house earlier this week.

Gaylesta is the Psychotherapist Association for Gender and Sexual Diversity. We provide mental health services including therapist referrals, education and consultation.

12/18/2025

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/court-blocks-michigan-ban-conversion-therapy-free-speech-128503197

A federal appeals court has blocked Michigan’s ban on conversion therapy for minors who are LGBTQ+, declaring it violates the First Amendment rights of therapists and counselors

12/02/2025

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/01/gay-conversion-therapy-should-be-consigned-to-history-in-the-us-it-could-make-a-comeback

Bans on the dangerous practice, condemned by national mental health organizations, could soon be struck down

11/18/2025

https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/conversion-therapy-trans-kid-21143330.php

As political attacks on gender-affirming care escalate, parents and experts fear a resurgence of discredited “therapies” that seek to change transgender children’s identities.

11/12/2025

https://www.wgbh.org/news/national/2025-11-07/study-anti-lgbtq-laws-driving-surge-in-youth-mental-health-struggles

Three local experts break down the latest LGBTQ+ news headlines, including a new study from The Trevor Project.

11/05/2025

https://people.com/conversion-therapy-leader-who-came-out-as-gay-is-living-life-to-fullest-exclusive-11838756

Six years after former "conversion therapy" leader McKrae Game came out as gay and apologized for his role in pushing the practice, the 57-year-old South Carolina man is opening up about his life since then and finding love

10/29/2025

10/27/2025

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/how-an-unusual-nickname-helped-this-video-game-legend-deal-with-gender-dysphoria/

"I always knew my real name was Rebecca but I couldn't tell anybody."

10/22/2025

https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-joins-multistate-opposition-us-doj%E2%80%99s-attempt-subpoena

Records sought by U.S. DOJ are outrageously expansive, seek to intimidate those providing and receiving gender-affirming care U.S. DOJ subpoena includes unprecedented interpretation of federal law that could expose doctors to criminal liability for offering evidence-based treatments OAKLAND — Cali...

10/20/2025

https://gaycitynews.com/lgbtq-youth-mental-health-crisis-study/

A new report by the Trevor Project, a non-profit su***de prevention organization, sheds light on the first part of a longitudinal study into the mental health