Colorado becomes the latest state to ban gay conversion therapy for minors
Washington Colorado is the latest state to move to ban gay conversion therapy for minors, aligning Colorado's policies with the consensus among leading medical and mental health professional organizations.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, the first US governor to identify as gay, signed a bill Friday that prohibits health care professionals from engaging in conversion therapy for patients under the age of 18. "Colorado has joined a growing list of states that have banned so-called conversion therapy," Polis said in a statement posted to his social media."It's a tortuous practice that has long been widely-discredited by medical and mental health professionals.
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