Utah Becomes Latest State To Ban
Discredited LGBTQ 'Conversion Therapy'
National Public Radio,
by
Colin Dwyer
Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac,
1/23/2020 12:38:55 PM
Utah has become the 19th — and most conservative — state in the U.S. to ban "conversion therapy" for minors. The widely discredited practice, aimed at changing a patient's sexual orientation or gender identity, is now formally barred in the state after the new rule took effect late Tuesday.
A spokesperson for Republican Gov. Gary Herbert, who directed licensing regulators to make the change, confirmed the move to NPR on Wednesday.
"We want to thank Governor Herbert and his administration for not allowing this issue to be politicized," Troy Williams, the executive director of Equality Utah, said at a Wednesday news conference celebrating the news. "He saw how polarizing this was
Same question as always: if medical and psychiatric confidences are...confidences then who will know about what's said by a patient or a doctor?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
lakerman1 1/23/2020 12:57:02 PM (No. 296178)
Let me see if I understand this.
If a minor is at the Q stage, a psychologist would not be allowed to gently lead the child to the straight stage?
If not, that means Q is meaningless and a fraud.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
PlayItAgain 1/23/2020 1:14:06 PM (No. 296190)
Pure bigotry and homophobia, this.
If a gay person seeks counselling, it will be denied.
If a straight person doesn't even ask for counselling, it is forced upon them. As happens in our public schools all the time.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
KatieJo 1/23/2020 1:15:05 PM (No. 296191)
I can't believe I just read this, I had no idea they were trying to ban "conversion therapy" for little kids. A sane society would ban mutilating little kids who do not have the maturity to make such insane decisions. What term do they use for the brainwashing that talks kids into thinking they're something they're not in the first place? We are in so much trouble.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/23/2020 1:15:39 PM (No. 296192)
The article does not explain whether this is the conversion TO the mismatched gender or the conversion back to normal. If it's the first scenario then any friend, parent or somebody who is already LGBTQ can talk the child into not believing that what he/she has between his/her legs was installed correctly.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 1/23/2020 1:15:55 PM (No. 296193)
Really? Did they outlaw conversion therapy or Conversion therapy. Like banning giving kids hormone to change convert them from say a male to a female? SInce they keep the penis, isn't this really converting them to a homosexual?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Venturer 1/23/2020 1:20:43 PM (No. 296200)
Insane people banning therapy for insane people.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
anniebc 1/23/2020 1:21:10 PM (No. 296202)
Notice this is about changing sexual orientation or gender identity, not about the science of gender or sex. God created them male and female; all that other nonsense is simply choice. There's no genetic proof that a male with a penis is really a female without one. People are crazy these days!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Ming 1/23/2020 1:22:35 PM (No. 296205)
Utah? This explains Mitt Romney.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
couchguy 1/23/2020 1:27:07 PM (No. 296216)
Both my senators and governor are open borders "never Trumpers". They all wish they were in California or New York. We have no representation in Utah.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
PESSIMIST 1/23/2020 1:29:48 PM (No. 296221)
Well, a good case can be made that "Freudian" depth analysis perfomed by extortionately expensive "psychiatrists" in New York City is a consumer fraud too. Anybody suggesting banning that?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
GW_Rider 1/23/2020 1:38:29 PM (No. 296229)
When did Utah go over the edge?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 1/23/2020 1:43:05 PM (No. 296237)
"Discredited"......only by the leftist Enemedia.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
MeiDei 1/23/2020 2:21:38 PM (No. 296269)
New title - "How to Make Your Head Hurt".
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
BarryNo 1/23/2020 2:26:27 PM (No. 296276)
Anyone who lobbies a child to become anything other than the gender their DNA says they are is committing child abuse.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
web 1/23/2020 3:11:46 PM (No. 296333)
Widely discredited by whom, and when? I have not seen any scientific studies or read any reports that discredit the practice. Once again, it is just gay activists and their media lapdogs who claim it has been "discredited," without any evidence. What is it to them, if someone wishes to have therapy to counter their perverted urges? Our youth are constantly bombarded by gay propaganda, telling them how wonderful and normal it is, but no other views are allowed, and must be banned and criminalized.
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My beautiful niece who at about 16-17 decided she wanted to go for change...to a male. Encouraged by counselor and doctor she now has a beard. I can't begin to tell you how it affects family. She's very proud of herself. When she was talking to her dad, who expressed distress, she told him that "now he had the boy he always wanted". Sick.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Tennman 1/23/2020 5:16:03 PM (No. 296492)
Any bets so many of the same folks are OK with gender transfers for children?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
JimBob 1/24/2020 12:43:03 AM (No. 296780)
"We want to thank Governor Herbert and his administration for not allowing this issue to be politicized,"
Sounds like it is ALL political, and the Utah government has laid down and is groveling before the Queer Lobby.
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