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Guidance Document Change: Board of Medicine guidance on conversion therapy
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12/11/19  6:27 am
Commenter: B. McDermott

Archaic practice that causes harm!
 

Conversion (reparative) therapy has been in the news quite a lot these days. So much so, that the scientific and medical communities have taken it upon themselves to study and research it's effects on the person being subjected to it. Both the scientific and medical communities have come to the (rightful) conclusion that this type of "therapy" is detrimental to the person being subjected to it. Statistics have shown that those who have been forced into this therapy have a much higher rate of suicidal ideation, and completed suicide. It has also been shown that this type of "therapy" causes an increase in mental health issues over all among those who are subjected to it. Further studies have shown that in the end, it doesn't change the person, it doesn't "make them straight". Allowing anyone to be licensed to force their religious beliefs (most times this "therapy" is religiously based) onto another person, especially a minor, is a violation of that person's rights.
Science has also proven that being LGBTQ isn't a choice, but that people are born that way. If God created all in His image, then why would you want to license people to try to change what God made so beautifully and perfectly? BAN CONVERSION "THERAPY"!!!! It's killing Virginia's kids and doing irreparable harm to families!

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