Equality Utah Director Troy Williams said he will “vehemently oppose any efforts” to revive the discredited practice.
, which oversees licenses to practice medicine in the state, to implement it.Originally, in the 2019 legislative session, lawmakers had worked on a bill to ban conversion therapy. It was never passed,The rule that later went into effect from DOPL, though, largely mirrored their language.
But while Anderegg said he supports 90% of the rule and thinks conversion therapy should be banned in the state, he wonders if the rule isn’t clear enough and if there’s some possibility to open up having talk therapy for LGBTQ clients who want to change their sexual orientation or gender identity.Brammer said he feels the rule as it stands is vague, and said he’s heard from several therapists who don’t know what they can or can’t do when working with LGBTQ clients.
The committee took no action Thursday. But the topic is likely to come up during the next legislative session.When the ban was first instituted, Gayle Ruzicka, president of the conservative Utah Eagle Forum, said she was confident lawmakers would attempt to alter or overturn it shortly. She sat in the committee room Thursday, shaking her head in agreement as legislators raised points against the rule.
Marina Lowe, the policy director for Equality Utah, said that the science on conversion therapy causing harm supports keeping the ban in place, including for talk therapy “which continues to do harm to LGBTQ youth.” Parents may force their kids to undergo such therapy, causing them extreme distress, she said.It is a discredited practice in all forms, with some studies pointing that it can lead to depression, substance abuse and suicide, Lowe said. Before Utah, 18 other states had banned it.
Lowe said the rule only bans providing the actual treatment of conversion therapy; she said recommendations could still happen.
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