On Wednesday, Maine outlawed conversion therapy, and New York and Massachusetts have also enacted laws banning the practice this year. Conversion therapy has been around for more than a century. The law in Colorado specifically prohibits a licensed physician from engaging in conversion therapy with a minor. “Colorado has joined a growing list of states that have banned so-called conversion therapy,” Polis said on Twitter. Its deputy director, Sheena Kadi, said there were several active conversion therapy practitioners in Colorado.

Source: bd News24 June 02, 2019 08:15 UTC