Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Health Professions
 
Board
Board of Social Work
 
chapter
Regulations Governing the Practice of Social Work [18 VAC 140 ‑ 20]
Action Unprofessional conduct/practice of conversion therapy
Stage NOIRA
Comment Period Ended on 8/7/2019
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7/16/19  7:18 pm
Commenter: Peg Ruggiero, MSW

Stop Conversion Therapy
 

Conversion therapy has no basis in research and is, in fact, judgmental of an entire group of people whose gender identity or sexual preference is a trait that is as genetic as eye color or body type. It is as ludicrous to support this treatment modality as it would be to practice putting people on stretchers because they are short. Please ban this practice. It devalues legitimate therapeutic processes.

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