conversion therapy
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Proposed ban on conversion therapy for minors advances in Denver (VIDEO)
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Denver’s City Council will soon consider a ban on psychotherapy that seeks to change the sexual orientation of minors. Denver’s Safety, Housing, Education and Homeless Committee voted Wednesday to send the proposal to the full council. Psychology’s governing bodies have denounced conversion therapy, which treats being gay or transgender as a mental illness. Research shows…
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Legislature must ban use of ‘conversion therapy’ on our youth
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Imagine a child is taken to a doctor by their parents, despite the child pleading they’re fine. The doctor also asserts the child is ill and begins using a practice deemed harmful and ineffective by most doctors and major professional organizations, including the American Medical Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, and American Psychological Association. The…
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Colorado House passes bill, again, to ban conversion therapy for minors
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DENVER – For the fourth year in a row the Colorado House passed legislation to ban conversion therapy by licensed therapists who counsel minors who think they might be lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. While the Democratic majority has moved the ban to the Senate each year, Republicans in the majority there quickly killed the…
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Coffman says she’d sign bill repealing ban on discrimination based on sexual orientation
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DENVER – Attorney General Cynthia Coffman, a Republican candidate for governor, told a GOP group last week she would sign a bill removing protection based on sexual orientation from Colorado’s anti-discrimination law. Her remarks drew criticism from the state’s leading LGBTQ-advocacy organization, but Coffman later said she meant she would repeal the protection only if…
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This Week at the Capitol: March 19-23
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Here are the legislative committee hearings of note for the week ahead at the Colorado Capitol. Committee schedules are subject to change. The daily schedule is available on the legislature’s website. Click here and scroll down to committee hearings to listen online. MONDAY House Education Committee, 1:30 p.m., Room 112 House Bill 1252, barring the sale of…
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Brianna Titone seeks to become first transgender member of the legislature
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Colorado House candidate Brianna Titone is leading the charge to convince Wheat Ridge to become the first municipality in Colorado to ban conversion therapy for gay minors. The council could vote on the issue as soon as its next regular meeting on March 12 LGBTQ advocates say it is a discredited psychiatric practice that harms…
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LGBTQ Coloradans to lobby the Colorado Capitol on Monday
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One Colorado, the state’s largest LGBTQ organization, will be joined by hundreds of allies at the Colorado Capitol Monday. It’s an annual event that starts at 8:30 a.m. with a gathering nearby at the Central Presbyterian Church at 1660 Sherman St. Again this year, the LGBTQ lobby is pushing for a bill to make it easier for…
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Conversion therapy has no place in Colorado
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For the past three years, legislators in Colorado have worked to ban conversion therapy, a dangerous and discredited practice where licensed mental health professionals try to change a young person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. For the past three years, I’ve sat next to – and listened to – survivors’ saddening and terrifying stories in…
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Republican Attorney General Cynthia Coffman hails equality in Colorado at LGBT pride rally
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Colorado has some of the nation’s toughest non-discrimination laws but still has work to do, Republican Attorney General Cynthia Coffman said at a Denver rally for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered equality Sunday. Coffman, the lone Republican on a stage filled with Democratic elected officials and candidates, told the crowd she could also be the only…