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Republican state senator Vince Leach is sponsoring a bill that would prevent any municipality or county in Arizona from banning gay conversion therapy.
Conversion therapy is the harmful, pseudoscientific and discredited practise of attempting to change someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity. Almost half of the states in the US alongside multiple counties, including Pima County in Arizona, already have some form of a ban against it.
However, the bill sponsored by Leach, with the backing of other Republicans, would change that. The bill in its current form seeks to prevent professional counsellors from being discredited if they are providing therapy that is following their “conscience or religious belief”.
Gay conversion therapy, or reparative therapy, is discredited by major mental health organizations. Author: Joe Dana Updated: 4:28 AM MST February 18, 2021
PHOENIX Arizona State Sen. Vince Leach is sponsoring a bill with the backing of several Republicans that would prevent any municipality or county from banning so-called gay “conversion therapy.”
Twenty states, along with Arizona’s Pima County, already have some form of a ban against reparative therapy.
Gay conversion therapy, or reparative therapy, is discredited by major mental health organizations.
The theory claims that people can be changed from gay to straight through professional counseling. Supporters consider the therapy a religious and personal freedom.