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Guidance Document Change: Board of Medicine guidance on conversion therapy
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12/9/19  4:32 pm
Commenter: Maria Keffler, Arlington Parent Coalition

Transgender Affirmation of Children IS Conversion Therapy
 

Counseling that helps people understand why they feel the way they do is not conversion therapy. Shuttling children into harmful medical interventions such as hormone therapy and genital mutilation is not good science, good psychology, or good policy. Putting in place policies that prevent parents from protecting their children from physical, emotional, and psychological harm is unconscionable. Do not enact such legislation.

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