Anchorage bans conversion therapy on LGBTQ youth
metroweekly.comAnchorage Daily News reports.The ban prevents licensed professionals from attempting conversion therapy on minors in the city, with those who continue to do so subject to a $500 fine, which stacks for each day that the ban is violated.“One day, this practice will be banned throughout the United States,” Assembly Chair Felix Rivera, who co-sponsored the ban, said. “And then one day, we are going to look back and we’re going to wonder why this was ever a debate, and why this practice was ever allowed.”Anchorage’s ban does not cover clergy undertaking the practice in a religious setting, nor mental health professionals, and adults are free to continue to seek conversion therapy.Parents are also able to administer conversion therapy as long as.
