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Palm Beach County, Boca Raton challenge federal ruling on conversion therapy December 16, 2020 at 11:25 AM EST - Updated December 16 at 3:01 PM Palm Beach County and Boca Raton are challenging a In 2017, the county and city passed ordinances which ban medical providers from treating minors with "any counseling, practice or treatment performed with the goal of changing an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity." Robert Otto and Julie Hamilton, licensed marriage and family ther...

Staver: Court will uphold counseling freedom Tuesday, December 15, 2020  |  Chris Woodward (OneNewsNow.com) Spanish The city of Boca Raton and Palm Beach County, Florida are seeking to revive a so-called counseling ban. The ban prevents counselors from providing minor clients with help to reduce or eliminate unwanted same-sex attractions, behaviors, or gender confusion. A three-judge panel at the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently struck down the ban in a 2-1 opinion. The City...

Palm Beach County and the city of Boca Raton are pushing back on a court panels decision last month that effectively nullified bans on conversion therapy, arguing that the three judges went beyond their duty when they ruled that such bans violated the First Amendment. In a petition filed Friday for rehearings in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, the local governments say that the "decision, possibly unintentionally, included language suggesting it constituted a final decision" on the matter ...