Alaska is set to become the next US to ban LGBTQ+ conversion therapy after a bill was filed earlier this month by state representative Sara Hannan. GLAAD defines conversion therapy as any attempt to alter a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity.
It has been widely discredited by professional medical bodies and known to cause trauma and depression in those who are subjected to it, with around 700,000 adults in the US alone having experienced conversion therapy, leaving them six times more likely to suffer from depression.
20 states have banned the practice so far.Sara Hannan proposed the billAccording to Them, this is the first time in the state’s 62-year history which it has considered banning conversion therapy. Sam Brinton, vice.