2-1 Decision by Two Trump-Appointed Judges A federal appeals court on Friday struck down two local Florida ordinances that ban dangerous and harmful conversion therapy by licensed medical professionals.
The 2-1 majority decision by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals is being criticized by legal and human rights experts. Nearly every major medical association in the U.S.
has denounced conversion therapy as harmful and dangerous. The practice, which purports to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity, has been linked to suicide.
Those who have been subjected to it often call it “torture.” The Florida law applies only to licensed medical professionals, not to members of the clergy, yet on Friday the 11th Circuit panel claimed it