D.C. mayor signs bill prohibiting conversion therapy for LGBT youth

[William769]

WASHINGTON — District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray on Monday signed a bill to prohibit LGBT youth from undergoing gay-to-straight conversion therapy.

D.C. becomes the third jurisdiction — behind California and New Jersey — to pass legislation protecting LGBT youth from practices that have been determined to cause severe depression and even suicide.

The new law prohibits D.C.-licensed mental health providers from engaging in sexual orientation change efforts with patients under the age of 18.

“This law ensures that mental health practitioners can no longer abuse their power to harm young people and families by propagating the dangerous lie that there is something wrong with being LGBT or that therapy can change their core sexual orientation or gender identity,” said Samantha Ames, a staff attorney for the National Center for Lesbian Rights and #BornPerfect Campaign Coordinator.

http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2014/12/d-c-mayor-signs-bill-prohibiting-conversion-therapy-on-lgbt-youth/

[NuclearDem]

1. About time somebody outlawed these death camps.

[Initech]

2. Gay conversion therapy = torture.

This should be outlawed across the country. But if it has to be done until one state at a time, so be it.

[sheshe2]

3. KnR

Good news William, thanks.

[countryjake]

4. K&R!