The conservative state of Utah is now the 19th state to ban LGBTQ conversion therapy for minors.
As reported by the Associated Press, the ban finally pushed through after the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the Mormon church, finally supported it after being assured that some exceptions would be made for clergy.
With the new rule, LGBTQ minors in Utah can no longer be subjected by therapists in the state to conversion therapy. Meanwhile, church leaders and members of the Mormon church who are therapists can provide their families and parishioners with spiritual counseling.
The rule was sponsored by Republican Utah Representative Craig Hall, who said it would outlaw dangerous practices while also protecting medical professionals.
With such a conservative state passing a ban, advocates believe it will embolden other groups who are pushing for similar bans in other right-leaning states. National Center for Lesbian Rights legal director Shannon Minter says it has “given people a lot of hope. The National Center for Lesbian Rights has been pushing for similar bans across the United States.
Utah now joins 18 other states that have banned the practice. The other states are New Jersey, California, Oregon, Illinois, Vermont, New Mexico, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Nevada, Washington, Hawaii, Delaware, Maryland, New Hampshire, New York, Massachusetts, Colorado, and Maine. States considering the ban include Virginia, Texas, and Kentucky.
The World Psychiatric Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the UK Council for Psychotherapy, and the Australian Psychological Society all condemn conversion therapy. The practice claims that it can change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. People who have undergone conversion therapy have said that it only made them more depressed and suicidal.
In 2018, the films “Boy Erased” and “The Miseducation of Cameron Post” increased sign-ups to campaigns focused on banning conversion therapy.
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Yippee! It dies t work and just harms the “victim.”
It doesn’t work and just harms the “victim.”
I’m glad that this practice has been banned in another state and hopefully the rest will follow. I find it odd that one’s individual sexuality that might be different from the perceived normal to be a perversion that needs to be fixed. There is a wide spectrum to sexuality in which I don’t think others have the right to judge. It can be only be hurtful to someone’s spirit to say the way he or she was born isn’t good enough to be accepted. Glad this conversion practice is getting banned.
“The World Psychiatric Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the UK Council for Psychotherapy, and the Australian Psychological Society all condemn conversion therapy” The practice was condemned by legitimate mental health experts from day one, and should have been outlawed from it’s inception.
I’m perfectly OK with conversion therapy being an option for ADULTS who can freely choose it. The problem for me is minors forced into it. Conversion therapy is as voodoo as astrology and tarot cards, but if adults want to buh-lieve in it, so be it.
I disagree. This therapy is proven as harmful to the subject. Do you think “clinicians” should be allowed to to treat COVID patients by injecting them with bleach merely by contending that it works?
Precisly correct, and the only job of State id to prevent physicsl abuse not Ban sltigether
Just pass laws and all the bad things go away. #NOT
Conversion therapy will still go on uninterrupted and only the foolish and deluded think that all that is necessary to fix something is pass a law.
If that were true, as as result of the Emancipation Proclamation, racism would have been vanquished and all would have been hunky dory.
Acting like this moment in Utah is progress is deluded thinking.
Matt:
While what you write is pragmatic, what the ban does is now allow those subject to the therapy legal recourse.
That recourse is a call to the Media and the Media, even in Utah, remains the Media. Over the long course, Religion is dying out as the Every-day Human Being becomes more attached to things than he/she does to beings.
The Mormon Church, in Utah, is slowly dying out as its followers become more acquainted and thus more tainted with the material world and less acquainted and less tainted with the spiritual world.
People also become attached to people who evole the material desirrs, sexual lists and such people away the emotional and spiritual guideposts. Humanity does not exist in a singular sex society. Think about that
You know; No matter how good the news there is always some sour loser who has to crap on it. Just because it may not stop everything doesn’t mean it wont be helpful or useful. By your logic we shouldn’t have any laws at all? After all people still rob liquor stores and we have laws against that. Let’s just get rid of that useless law shall we. Surely nothing will change. Anyway. I hope you get therapy and read a book.
Man, whew, the ‘logic’ of this statement, powerful! I feel like you just shot everything that might be said on behalf of pro-treatment; down, can’t “spin” this one, lmao!
Wow you are stupid. The purpose of Government is no to engineer society, It is togoverskæring equal representation to all individuals . This is not the governments business. Unless people are injured in which vase they can sue. WTF with all the collier than thou Democrat Totalitarians?
As soon as a handful more of the States ban this treatment over half will have done so. Then the President can become a hero and set a Federal ban on it. Much like how President Obama became a hero when he declared Marriage Equality after more than half the States had done so
I understand the concept- but psychologists and psychiatrists who took an oath to help people are in a bind when states pass laws to interfere with their work. I’ll guess this impacts pediatricians and internists too. To get public support, they call psychotherapy with a questioning individual a really outrageous name like ‘conversion therapy’. Presto, problems solved! Ummm, not. For every person dragged or pushed to a healthcare professional to be ‘cured’ from his homosexual tendencies, there are dozens who want no such thing. How about the young football player who can’t come out (might lose his career) but has… Read more »
I went through conversion therapy as a teenager in Massachusetts and I’m glad the started are finally banning the dangerous prescribe so kids won’t have to go through what I did growing up
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[…] the United States, 19 states have already banned conversion therapy for minors. Utah was the latest to do so back in January. The other states are New Jersey, California, Oregon, Illinois, Vermont, New Mexico, Connecticut, […]
This is a violation of parents rights. It is the State choosing to assert power over parents and it is wrong. Some of us better wake up to the reality that the Democrat Party id out of control snd its just a matter of time until it turn its Totalitarian edicts against us. History tells us the same of past Socialist regimes, only to find they quickly turned on gays after getting their approval . This is an insurrection against freedom and nothing less. Democrat Party is st odds with Democracy. Wake up folks! Tune out the China influenced web… Read more »
Ar Young age, sexual imprinting is very much a part… porno , gender brnder teaching in schools iss much convergence tjerspy as that which is honest about its intent . The State shpuld not be involved in this period!