The order makes it illegal to utilize state or federal funding to support conversion therapy programs for minors. The order provides licensing boards the ability to take action on licensees if they are caught conducting conversion therapy on minors.
Previously, Beshear vetoed a bill prohibiting sex changes for minors. The Republican-dominated Kentucky General Assembly ultimately overturned the veto with their supermajorities. Beshear’s order does not include a prohibition against sex change treatments.
“Kentucky cannot possibly reach its full potential unless it is free from discrimination by or against any citizen – unless all our people feel welcome in our spaces, free from unjust barriers and supported to be themselves,” Beshear announced in a press release. “Conversion therapy has no basis in medicine or science, and it can cause significant long-term harm to our kids, including increased rates of suicide and depression. This is about protecting our youth from an inhumane practice that hurts them.”
Conversion therapy is the practice of clinically trying to stop individuals from being attracted to someone of the same sex and changing an individual’s “sexual orientation” or “gender identity,” the order states. […]
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