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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12/10/19  12:17 pm
Commenter: Sarah Hagen, LCSW

Ban conversion therapy
 

Please ban conversion therapy. These harmful practices use shame, rejection, and psychological abuse to try to force young people to change who they are. These dangerous and discredited practices are based on the false claim that being gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or queer is a mental illness that needs to be cured - a view with no scientific basis. We cannot allow one more young person to be targeted and hurt by these dangerous and discredited practices. 

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