Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
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Department of Health Professions
 
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Board of Medicine
 
Guidance Document Change: Board of Medicine guidance on conversion therapy
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12/10/19  12:08 pm
Commenter: Joanna Ehat

Expressly Ban Conversion Therapy
 

Conversion therapy must be expressly outlawed in Virginia.  This will protect minors in Virginia from state-licensed therapists who falsely claim to parents and youth that being LGBTQ is a mental illness, and therefore taking advantage of parents and harming vulnerable youth.  Conversion therapy is widely discredited and evidenced to lead to depression, substance use, and suicide.

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