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Guidance Document Change: Board of Medicine guidance on conversion therapy
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12/9/19  6:45 pm
Commenter: Vicky J Newell

Ban conversion therapy
 

My late spouse was transgendered, and I cannot imagine having her subjected to the humiliation of such so-called therapy.  She was devastated when it was suggested to her, all but forced on her, by "well-meaning" persons.   I still can't believe that anyone would have believed her transition was taken lightly or thoughtlessly, or that she would have endured the years of therapy and surgery it entailed but for the firm and fixed fact that she was a woman trapped in the wrong body.  To have acted other than she did would not have been conversion but perversion.  I never want anyone to suffer such indignity as "conversion therapy" and ask you to do all you can to protect these already vulnerable people.

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