接觸： Anne Stanback, CT Equality: (860) 280-6896

Today the Connecticut House of Representatives passed HB 6695, AAC The Protection of Youth from Conversion Therapy, by a vote of 141-8. Sponsored by Representative Jeff Currey and Senator Beth Bye, the bill has 100 co-sponsors and was approved by a unanimous vote of the Public Health Committee.

“We are thrilled with this vote to protect the well-being of Connecticut’s youth,” said Anne Stanback, speaking for the Connecticut Equality Coalition. “We look forward to the Senate vote and to the moment when this barbaric practice is banned in our state.”

各州和國家醫療、心理健康和兒童福利組織均反對性傾向扭轉療法，即旨在改變個人性傾向或性別認同的療法。大量專業文獻表明，這種療法不僅無法有效改變性取向或性別認同，而且對青少年有害。接受過性傾向扭轉療法的青少年罹患憂鬱症、產生自殺念頭和自殺行為、吸食非法毒品的風險更高。

Under the bill’s provisions, any licensed health professional who practices conversion therapy would be subject to discipline by the Department of Public Health up to and including the loss of their professional license

The Senate will take up the bill next. Governor Dannel Malloy has said he will sign the bill. Connecticut would join California, Illinois, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Vermont and Washington DC in banning the practice.

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