Kentucky governor bans conversion therapy, setting up legal battle

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : " "This order, like previous failed legislative efforts, is designed to promote false LGBTQ ideologies and muzzle Christian counselors, therapists, and pastors from helping children struggling with sexual orientation or gender identity confusion," Walls wrote, but added that the organization does not "have anything to share regarding legal action at this time.
57% : Research has shown such practices more often result in reduced self-esteem, self-harm or suicide than in lasting change to gender identities or sexual attraction -- findings that have prompted a slew of countries to ban conversion therapy.
52% : Beshear said the new policy, which goes into effect immediately, is an overdue step to protect children from a widely discredited medical practice that attempts to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity.
48% : The premise of conversion therapy, according to medical experts, is that same-sex attraction or nonconforming gender expression and identity are pathological -- the result of physical or mental illness.

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