How are parental rights invoked in the debate over conversion therapy for minors?

May 29, 2019 ... LD 1025, An Act To Prohibit the Provision of Conversion Therapy to Minors by Certain Licensed Professionals, sponsored by Assistant House ... The term includes, but is not limited to, practices commonly referred to as "reparative therapy." (b) "Conversion therapy" does not include counseling or ... Conversion therapy is defined as any service, practice or treatment designed to change a person's sexual orientation to heterosexual, gender identity to ... Abstract. Sexual orientation conversion therapy was the treatment of choice when homosexuality was thought to be an illness. Despite the declassification of ... What is so called, “Conversion Therapy”? Conversion therapy is an abhorrent pseudo-medical or religious practice that seeks to change someone's sexual ... The act prohibits a licensed physician specializing in psychiatry or a licensed, certified, or registered mental health care provider from engaging in ... Conversion therapy does not include counseling or therapy for an individual who is seeking to undergo a gender transition or who is in the process of undergoing ... Mar 10, 2025 ... WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a challenge to a law in Colorado that bans “conversion therapy” aimed at young people ... "Conversion therapy" means any practice or treatment administered to a person under eighteen years of age that seeks to change the person's sexual orientation ... Feb 1, 2024 ... This bill would criminalise offering or practicing conversion therapy, defined as practices where the practitioner demonstrates an assumption of a preferable ...