Posted on 01/22/2020 8:26:05 PM PST by NKP_Vet
Utah has become the 19th — and most conservative — state in the U.S. to ban "conversion therapy" for minors. The widely discredited practice, aimed at changing a patient's sexual orientation or gender identity, is now formally barred in the state after the new rule took effect late Tuesday.
A spokesperson for Republican Gov. Gary Herbert, who directed licensing regulators to make the change, confirmed the move to NPR on Wednesday.
"We want to thank Governor Herbert and his administration for not allowing this issue to be politicized," Troy Williams, the executive director of Equality Utah, said at a Wednesday news conference celebrating the news. "He saw how polarizing this was becoming, and he made the decision to allow science to prevail over politics. He kept his word to the LGBTQ community, and we are deeply grateful to him."
There are some key exceptions: The ban doesn't apply to clergy, religious counselors, parents or grandparents, so long as they're not acting as psychologists.
Still, the rule exists — a simple fact that, for a long time, was far from assured.
An attempt to get a ban passed in the state legislature collapsed last year, after conservative lawmakers amended the bill so extensively that by the time it received committee approval, even its sponsor, Rep. Craig Hall, had effectively disowned it. The measure stalled in the state House of Representatives.
So Herbert requested that state regulators review and propose new rules concerning the practice.
"I certainly have concerns about some of the abuse that I've heard talked about, but I'm not a psychologist," Herbert said during a news conference last June, when he announced his request. "This is not my background. I'm going to rely upon the experts to tell us what should be done, or not be done, or how it should be done."
A host of medical professionals — including the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics — has outright rejected conversion therapy as "futile and destructive."
LGBTQ young people are already significantly more likely to attempt suicide than their heterosexual peers. But according to researchers at San Francisco State University, rates of attempted suicide among LGBTQ youth more than double when parents try to change their sexual orientation. And those rates triple when parents and therapists and religious leaders try to do so.
It was a lot of messaging of like, 'The way you are right now is problematic, and people will not like you or accept you the way you are' — which, as a 16-year-old, that's the last thing you need to hear from adults," Nathan Dalley, a student at the University of Utah and an outspoken conversion therapy survivor, told Nicole Nixon of member station KUER on Wednesday.
"I'm really happy to hear that youth are protected from this practice and that families in the future will not have to deal with the effects of conversion therapy," Dalley added. "It's hard to deal with. It's hard to address. It's hard to talk about, and it's hard to heal from."
“ There are some key exceptions: The ban doesn't apply to clergy, religious counselors, parents or grandparents, so long as they're not acting as psychologists.”
Let em try this BS in any Southern State, Virginia excluded, and see how far they get.
Ping.
But you can still change a normal kid to faggot?
They seek to normalize their behavior to achieve easier access to MOLEST YOUR CHILDREN!
>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/warrenthrockmorton/2009/06/05/a-major-study-of-child-abuse-and-homosexuality-revisited/<
On page 37, the other relevant result relates to men.
The 13th research question addressed, of homosexual men who have been molested, what percentage were molested before self-identification as homosexual men, and what percentage were molested after self-identification as homosexual? Of homosexual men who were molested, 68% were molested before self-identification as homosexual, and 32% were molested after self-identification as homosexual.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q6pDGNQw3I<
The Left's Push For Pedophile Acceptance
If you want my Word Doc. with links to 20 other studies supporting this position, Private Message me with your e-mail.
Johns Hopkins Research: No Evidence People Are Born Gay or Transgender
https://pjmedia.com/trending/2016/08/23/johns-hopkins-research-no-evidence-people-are-born-gay-or-transgender/?utm_source=pjmedia&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=3b4e0404e2a25b0b315ed83034bf9e0c&recip=599049
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/number-50-fall-2016
Now THAT is what should be banned....and under the death penalty.
Shame on them. Patients have an absolute right to seek out therapy that helps them with unwanted sexual desires. At what point will therapy to suppress pedophilia be considered discredited and banned?
Utah sucks. Change my mind (but don’t really, it’s just a saying).
[[”families in the future will not have to deal with the effects of conversion therapy”]]
LOL- ‘the effects’ Yeah- and being gay and suicidal is to be preferred?
The Left may be taking over the Mormon Church the way they took over the Catholic and mainline Protestant churches.
Discredited by who?
Did they ban Alcoholics Anonymous, narcotics anonymous and other therapies that help people control undesired vices?
not only that they can pump a minor full of gender-bender hormones and untested-for-this-purpose drugs in an attempt to defy genetics with political activism
You can’t ban Jesus Christ. Nice try Satans minions
What you reap. You sow
Grooming is still acceptable to the light loafers at NPR.
The sex positive agenda is pushed on 3rd graders and youth are encouraged to experiment, avoid abstinence, and explore nonbinary sexuality.
This used to be called corrupting a minor.
They are still upset that Anthony Perkins sought counseling and heterosexual relationships.
I don’t get this
How is this not a 1st Amendment Violation?
Even if Conversion Therapy was total bunk, free speech still applies.
Astrology is most certainly bunk, but that doesn’t mean the government can go around banning and jailing the guy who writes the horoscope in my paper.
They have classified any attempt to turn you as illegal and that’s absurd
Maybe. Only ass munchers have the talent to turn normal kids to their own gross kind..
Something like 65% of girls wanting to be boys have pre-existing mental health issues such as Aspergers, OCD, anxiety, depression, etc. For whatever reason they buy into the trans-cult that THAT will solve their issues.
It doesn’t.
There has been a 4,500 percent increase in ten years of girls wanting to be boys. Hysteria. (300% increase in boys wanting to be girls).
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