Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Health Professions
 
Board
Board of Psychology
 
chapter
Regulations Governing the Practice of Psychology [18 VAC 125 ‑ 20]
Action Unprofessional conduct/conversion therapy
Stage NOIRA
Comment Period Ended on 8/7/2019
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8/1/19  11:07 pm
Commenter: Michael Rack

Against Conversion Therapy
 

I support a ban on conversion therapy for minors. My argument is simple: studies show conversion therapy and/or similar practices increase suicide rates in homosexuals. Participating in behavior that meaningfully increases the death rate of a minor is a form of child abuse. Child abuse should not be legal. Therefore putting a child in conversion therapy should not be legal. I think any parent that subjects a child to conversion therapy is, as far as we can tell from our current studies, putting that child at risk of death. 

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