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Guidance Document Change: Board of Medicine guidance on conversion therapy
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12/11/19  11:35 pm
Commenter: Elizabeth Fogarty

Support Guidance Document 85-7
 

I support protecting youth from so-called “conversion therapy,” a dangerous and discredited practice aimed at changing their sexual orientation or gender identity. These dangerous and discredited practices are based on the false claim that being lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer is a mental illness that needs to be cured—a view with no scientific basis. No young person should ever be shamed by a mental health professional into thinking that who they are is wrong. Mental health professionals should provide care that is ethical and affirming for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender young people. It is time to update the regulations to ban conversion therapy.

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