Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
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Board of Medicine
 
Guidance Document Change: Board of Medicine guidance on conversion therapy
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12/10/19  8:36 am
Commenter: Aidan Kierans

Ban conversion therapy
 

So-called "conversion therapy" is traumatic, pointless, and not even medically sound. It's collection of dangerous and discredited practices based on the false claim that being lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ) is a mental illness that needs to be cured—a view with no scientific basis. Subjecting a minor to conversion therapy is abuse that could so easily be prevented. Any therapist worth their license knows this, and they shouldn't be allowed to continue their violations of medical ethics. 

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