Kentucky governor bans conversion therapy

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, a Democrat, yesterday banned conversion therapy by executive order, the state's Republican-led lawmakers having refused to do so themselves. It will no longer be legal there to send youngsters to 'therapists' to 'cure' them of undesirable sexual orientations of gender identities—discredited practices which don't work even when the patient consents, but which facilitate a cottage industry of grifters, hucksters and zealots who prey on low-information conservative parents. — Read the rest
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