press release from the governor’s office.It’s not clear if such funding has ever been used for this purpose, but “we want to make sure if it has happened, it doesn’t happen again,” Evers, a Democrat, said at a Tuesday press conference, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.Wisconsin lawmakers have been debating conversion therapy, which is designed to turn LGBTQ+ people straight and cisgender.
Every major health organization in the U.S. considers the practice not only ineffective but harmful. Last year the state’s Department of Safety and Professional Standards adopted a rule that would have prohibited such therapy; because it’s part of the rulemaking process, it didn’t need approval from the legislature or governor.But this year.