Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
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Department of Health Professions
 
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Board of Medicine
 
Guidance Document Change: Board of Medicine guidance on conversion therapy
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12/9/19  11:45 am
Commenter: James Pereira

Protect children: ban conversion
 

Conversion therapy is medically discredited and psychologically abusive. LGBTQ orientation/identity is not a mental illness and conversion therapy has been shown through meta-analysis to be ineffective at changing behavior, while causing undue pain and suffering and increasing likelihood of depression, anxiety, and attempted suicide. Please end this needless, destructive, and dishonest practice

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