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Board of Medicine
 
Guidance Document Change: Board of Medicine guidance on conversion therapy
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12/6/19  1:15 am
Commenter: Caroline

Protect LGBT Rights and Ban Conversion Therapy in Our State
 

It's long past due to ban conversion "therapy" inflicted on gay, lesbian, bi, and trans kids. This pseudoscientific "therapy" has been conclusively shown to not only be ineffective, but extremely harmful to those it is used on. 

Religion and the bigotry that often stems from it should have no influence over public policy, and protecting LGBT kids is especially important now, given the vicious federal rollback of measures to promote LGBT (and particularly trans) equality. 

LGBT kids must be allowed to be who they know themselves to be, to express that to the world without being brutally repressed by abusive measures like conversion therapy, and to have access to affirming therapy and medical care.

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