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An End to Conversion Therapy?

Rosen, David
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/06/12/an-end-to-conversion-therapy/

Publisher:  CounterPunch
Date Written:  12/06/2017
Year Published:  2017  
Resource Type:  Article

Nevada is the latest of eight states that officially ended the practice of sexual "conversion therapy" of minors.

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Conversion therapy, also known as "reparative therapy," refers to a host of pseudoscientific practices and faith-based counseling aimed at changing a person's sexual orientation, of "curing" a person, often a youth, of homosexuality. Nevada joins Connecticut and New Mexico that ended the practice earlier this year and five other states -- California (2012), Illinois (2015), New Jersey (2013), Oregon (2015) and Vermont (2016) -- as well as the District of Columbia (2014) and other cities that banned the dubious practice.

At the height of the religious right's campaign against homosexuals, more than 20 states introduced similar legislation sanctifying conversion therapy. In New York State, Governor Andrew Cuomo issued an executive action to make it harder to conduct gay conversion therapy. While the state has not formally banned the practices, it bars insurance coverage for the practice and prohibits state-licensed mental health providers from offering it to minors. Cities across the country have banned the practice, including in Florida (Delray Beach, Boynton Beach, West Palm Beach and Lake Worth), Ohio (Columbus, Cincinnati and Toledo), Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh) and Washington (Seattle). In 2016, Senators Patty Murray (WA) and Corey Booker (NJ) re-introduced the Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act to ban conversion therapy; an earlier version of the bill was introduced last year but died in the Republican-controlled Senate.
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