Therapy bans, APA talking points and counseling choice
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Therapy bans, APA talking points and counseling choice
Therapy bans, APA talking points and counseling choice | Sunday, February 28, 2021
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A multitude of states, counties and cities have banned “conversion therapy,” usually for minors only, with efforts underway to issue a national ban for all through the so-called “Equality Act” (HR 5). Yet, “conversion therapy” is a misrepresentative, maligning and summarily ill-defined term employed as a jamming tactic to capitalize on an allusion to implicitly forced religious conversion while stigmatizing and intimidating any therapist who would eng