Anchorage 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.