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A majority of the United States population lives in jurisdictions that have banned conversion therapy on minors, although significant gaps in protections remain. Opponents of conversion therapy argue that it is abusive to attempt to change an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity and that the practice is based in pseudoscience.
The Youth Mental Health Protection Act, H.B. 217, is an Illinois bill that prohibits mental health professionals from implementing conversion therapy, reparative therapy, or sexual orientation change efforts on patients under the age of eighteen. [2]
Scannell had hoped Green Bay would become the 15th Wisconsin city to adopt a citywide conversion therapy ban, joining Appleton, Cudahy, Eau Claire, Glendale, Kenosha, La Crosse, Madison, Milwaukee ...
A lawsuit challenging Missouri's 2023 ban on gender-affirming care is ongoing, with patients and health care providers recently taking the stand.
After conversion therapy has failed to change someone's sexual orientation or gender identity, participants often feel increased shame that they already felt over their sexual orientation or gender identity. [21] Conversion therapy can cause significant, long-term psychological harm. [2]
It also banned transition care from being prescribed via telehealth. And it required physicians to file complex new informed consent paperwork that experts , and later a federal judge, deemed ...
[34] [35] In April 2021, after another two members of the panel quit over lack of action on banning conversion therapy, Liz Truss, the equalities minister, disbanded the panel. [36] On 11 May, in the Queen's Speech, the government stated its intention that conversion therapy should become a banned practice throughout England and Wales. [37]
Gov. Roy Cooper signed into law a certificate of need exemption for the project on Friday