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According to Axios, Google has been suspended from the corporate equality index of the largest LGBTQ civil rights organization in the United States after failing to remove an application of conversion processing of his store of applications.

Human Rights Campaign (HRC) publishes an index of corporate equality every year. Google has done well in the past, achieving a 100% rating on issues such as the ban on discrimination in 2018.

HRC said the application, called Living Hope Ministries, "supports the practice of" conversion therapy ".

A petition on Change.org calling for the removal of the app has generated more than 140,000 signatures and Apple, Amazon and Microsoft have all removed them from their platforms. Apple has removed the app from its App Store in December 2018.

Read more: People are asking Google to remove a gay conversion therapy app from the Play Store already launched from the Apple App Store.

However, Google has not removed the application, and Axios announced earlier this month that several "major LGBTQ rights groups" had written to CEO Sundar Pichai in the hope to meet him on this subject.

On Thursday, Axios announced that HRC had suspended Google from the index for not having removed the app, which was still on the Google Play Store at the time of writing this article, with about 1 000 downloads.

"Such practices have been rejected by all medical and mental health organizations for decades.Miners are especially vulnerable, and conversion therapy can lead to depression, anxiety, drug use, Homelessness and suicide can be detrimental to the LGBTQ community, the IEC clbadification is suspended, "HRC wrote in a footnote on Axios' company ratings this year.

The so-called gay "conversion therapy" has been widely criticized for its detrimental impact on LGBTQ people. The American Psychiatric Association has said it is concerned about efforts to "misinterpret homobaduality and promote the idea that badual orientation can be altered".

Google and HRC were not immediately available for comment when contacted by Business Insider.