I wrote on this topic in January of this year. The APA and NBCC both sponsor a known conversion therapy group for CE’s. Both the APA and NBCC state that they are not responsible for the actual content; the provider is. What does that even mean? We know the APA is the most stringent approval level for CE courses for therapists. So their approval of a course connotes actual approval of content. They are not addressing content that CLEARLY conflicts with multiple statements they have made.

In March 2025, they said

“An accurate understanding of evidence-based care is essential. There is a strong need for continued research to ensure full access to competent and reliable health care. Solid research is essential to protecting the lives and the rights of transgender, gender-diverse and nonbinary individuals and ensuring that they receive the best available care.”

Conversion therapy is the antithesis of evidence-based care. It has been explicitly shown to be dangerous to clients.

You do not get to talk out of both sides of your mouth here. You cannot say you support trans people and evidence-based care and then also sponsor CE’s that promote the opposite. If you Google the names associated with this group, you can see that many are linked to the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine (SEGM), a designated hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. 

It has been six months, and change has not happened. No public acknowledgment. Nothing. One might feel like the APA really does not care at all about trans people.

Here is a link to APA CE Sponsor Approval (CESA). Give them a call if you can, or email them. Or do not renew your APA membership.

Here is the same information for NBCC.