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Michigan Senate votes to ban conversion therapy on LGBTQ minors, sending bills to Whitmer
(Detroit Free Press) Bills to ban the practice of conversion therapy on LGBTQ minors in Michigan will now advance to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's desk for signature, after Senate Democrats passed the legislation Tuesday over Republican opposition.
House Bills 4616 and 4617, introduced by Reps. Felicia Brabec, D-Pittsfield Township, and Jason Hoskins, D-Southfield, ban licensed mental health professionals in Michigan from practicing conversion therapy on LGBTQ minors. Both bills passed 21-15, with Sen. Mark Huizenga, R-Walker, the lone GOP member to vote with Democrats in favor of each bill.
Conversion therapy is the practice of trying to change an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity through counseling or psychoanalysis, according to the American Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP). A bill analysis by the nonpartisan House Fiscal Agency states this counseling can typically include a combination of talk therapy and mental and physical stimuli. ......................(more)
https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2023/06/28/michigan-senate-conversion-therapy-ban-lgbtq-minors/70360381007/