Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Health Professions
 
Board
Board of Counseling
 
chapter
Regulations Governing the Practice of Professional Counseling [18 VAC 115 ‑ 20]
Action Unprofessional conduct - conversion therapy
Stage NOIRA
Comment Period Ended on 8/7/2019
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8/5/19  11:25 am
Commenter: J Debrot

Violation of self-determination for patient + stifles counselors' free speech
 

This is an outrageous violation of self-determination for the patient (or for their parents if the patient is a minor). It also stifles the counselors' right to free speech. People should be allowed to seek this type of therapy if they wish it. They are not being forced into it. Yet this measure would put government in the tyrannical position of denying them the choice. I can't imagine that this would be considered Constitutional.

CommentID: 75023