Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
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Board of Medicine
 
Guidance Document Change: Board of Medicine guidance on conversion therapy
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12/9/19  10:39 pm
Commenter: Karen Sheehan

No best practices, don’t pass
 

It seems we are rushing to legislate what is not medically agreed upon.  A holistic approach needs to be taken to protect children with gender dysphoria including taking into account their families faith beliefs and proven trauma based therapies.  While no child should endure questionable or short sighted  “conversion therapies” it is also true that no child or family should be sidelined by popular thinking.  We owe it to all our children to study gender dysphoria physically, mentally, spiritually and socially and develop best practice.  Silencing entire groups of practitioners is not the way to get there.  Isolating children from families is not either.  Education and family based therapy to understand the child’s needs should be the foundation of the discussions. 

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