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[email protected]. Author Lucas Ramón Mendos Main Research Assistants Enrique López de la Peña Lucía Belén Araque TM CURBING DECEPTION A world survey on legal regulation of so-called “conversion therapies” 2020 ilga.org TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS Co-Secretaries’ General Foreword 13 Author’s Preface and Acknowledgements 15 1. CHAPTER 1 - RELEVANT TERMS: MISNOMERS FOR A MYRIAD OF 17 HARMFUL PRACTICES 1. “Conversion therapy” 17 2. “Reparative therapy” 18 3. “Gay cure” 18 4. “Ex-gay therapy” 19 5. “Gender critical therapy” 19 6.