Anchorage Daily News. “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 is the first city in Alaska to ban conversion therapy; in doing so, it established the state as the 40th in the United States where some jurisidiction has taken action against the practice, which has been discredited by the American Psychological Association and major medical groups.