Praying/Beating The Gay Out Of You.

Yes, it is still happening in conservative states and still the same results.

Yes, conversion therapy is still going on, and Independence still hasn’t banned it
By the Kansas City Star Editorial Board
August 16, 2021


Efforts to change a child’s sexual orientation or gender identity through talk therapy or some other, more physical means of conversion are still going on in the Kansas City metropolitan area. On Monday, the Independence City Council will once again vote on whether to ban the practice.

Several young members of the LGBTQ and nonbinary community who experienced electroshock or some other form of conversion therapy have been pushing eastern Jackson County leaders to pass legislation banning it. Kansas City banned it two years ago, and North Kansas City took the step last month. It’s no longer allowed as a business practice in Columbia, Lawrence or St. Louis.

Zoe Dunning, 22 and nonbinary, says they were 15 years old when their parents sent them to a private “spiritual life coach” working through Dunning’s church to talk Dunning into gender conformity.
They give it all types of fancy names like “spiritual life coach” or “gender critical therapy” or “reparative therapy” but they all do the same thing to force you become “straight” by psychological pressure or physical abuse.

There are twenty states that ban it out right, and five with partial bans, Connecticut is one with a total ban on conversion therapy (religious organization are exempt because of the First Amendment).
The Independence ordinance wouldn’t completely eliminate the practice, because it can’t stop any religious group from attempting to counsel LGBTQ individuals into straight, cisgender versions of themselves.

In another Kansas town they are not even consider the ordinance…

Ross [Blue Springs Mayor] called it “feel-good legislation,” and said he doesn’t support passing a conversion therapy ban ordinance just to have it on the books. But how about just to let young LGBTQ residents know their city sees them as OK the way they are?

They are minors who are being tortured and taking their own lives, these are children who are being forced to be straight! Many times by parents religious beliefs.

While I was researching this I came across a court ruling blocking conversion therapy bans, the judges who struck down the law are Trump appointees.

Bans on conversion therapy in Palm Beach County, Boca Raton violate First Amendment, court rules
Therapists are banned from treating minors through 'sexual orientation change efforts'
WPTV
By: Miranda Christian , Matt Papaycik
December 02, 2020


PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. — A federal appeals court has ruled that Palm Beach County and the city of Boca Raton have violated the First Amendment right of free speech in the U.S. Constitution by banning therapists from practicing "conversion therapy" on minors, which is attempting to change their sexual orientation.

In 2017, the county and city passed ordinances which ban medical providers from treating minors with "any counseling, practice or treatment performed with the goal of changing an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity."

Robert Otto and Julie Hamilton, licensed marriage and family therapists based in Palm Beach County, sued the county and city of Boca Raton, arguing the ordinances violate the First Amendment and prevent them from speaking freely with clients.
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The court ruled that "this decision allows speech that many find concerning—even dangerous. But consider the alternative. If the speech restrictions in these ordinances can stand, then so can their inverse. Local communities could prevent therapists from validating a client’s same-sex attractions if the city council deemed that message harmful. And the same goes for gender transition—counseling supporting a client’s gender identification could be banned."

In 2017 the Supreme Court supported a low court ruling was legal.

Supreme Court upholds California’s ban on gay ‘conversion therapy’
Washington Post
By Amy B Wang
May 2, 2017


The Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to a California ban on “conversion therapy” for minors, letting stand a lower federal court ruling that upheld the state law passed in 2012.

The appeal challenging the ban was filed by a Christian minister in San Diego and others, who argued that the law violated their rights to religious freedom.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco had previously upheld the California law as constitutional. The Supreme Court justices did not comment Monday in refusing to hear the appeal, according to the Associated Press.

It was the second time the Supreme Court has turned away a challenge to the California law.

So this will be the third time but with a difference; Kavanaugh and Barrett sit on the court now, both Trump’s picks.