'Trying to change such a fundamental aspect of a person's identity is not only impossible, it is profoundly dangerous and causes serious, lasting harm.'
"Trying to change such a fundamental aspect of a person's identity is not only impossible, it is profoundly dangerous and causes serious, lasting harm."that the Washington Legislature was correct to ban conversion therapy for minors in 2018, prohibiting the practice of offering so-called treatment that claims an ability to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of patients.
The practice is closely tied to severe mental health struggles among people who undergo the therapy, with LGBTQ+ children nearly three times more likely to attempt suicide if they are subjected to it. A studyin 2018 found that more than 60% of children attempted suicide after a therapist attempted to change their sexual orientation.
A conversion therapist challenged Washington's law in 2021, claiming the ban violated his freedom of speech and his religious liberty, but the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday that the law pertains to professional conduct rather than speech. The Washington Legislature"relied on the fact that '[e]very major medical and mental health organization' has uniformly rejected aversive and non-aversive conversion therapy as unsafe and inefficacious," the court ruled.
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