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[Lambda Legal @LambdaLegal]

🎉 Let's see fewer bills attacking trans kids and more bipartisan votes to protect #LGBTQ youth in 2020! #BornPerfect
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[Matthew Wilson @mwilsonGA]

We are seeing more and more Republican-led legislatures ban conversion therapy because it's simply the right thing to do. We have made great progress in Georgia with #HB580, and I'm working hard to pass it out of committee, like we saw in Oklahoma yesterday.

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@NCLRights @AOrrEsq @GavinGrimmVA Isn't the case at the 4th Circuit and not SCOTUS?

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The AMA agrees with medical experts that the lack of regulation on conversion therapy opens the door to fraud, harm and trauma for many adults and children in the U.S. https://t.co/fYItyAruRE

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Being transgender is not a mental illness. Peoples’ gender diversity isn’t what’s dangerous; our attempts to change them are. And we urgently need legislation to protect them. We need to outlaw conversion efforts for transgender people nationwide. https://t.co/dgYYdSKxIT

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No therapeutic relationship with clients can be created by mental health professionals practicing "conversion therapy." Such practices are not therapy, they are dangerous and discredited practices opposed by all major medical organizations. #PassHB580

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Parental rights do not include endangering children by forcing them to undergo medical practices that have been rejected by the scientific community as discredited and harmful. #PassHB580

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Who knows that the State of Georgia has a compelling interest in protecting the physical and psychological well-being of its minors? All of these organizations and, really, shouldn't everyone? #PassHB580 #SafeAndSupported

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Who knows conversion therapy has no medical basis, contradicts the understanding of sexual orientation and gender identity, and puts young people at risk of serious harm, including suicide? The Georgia Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. #PassHB580

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Who believes that all children in Georgia should receive care that first, does no harm? Hope and Will and the rest of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. #PassHB580 #SafeAndSupported

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Who's on our team? More than 35 state and national organizations that believe in safe and supported children, including all the health professionals speaking out against conversion "therapy." Primum non nocere - first, do no harm.

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From 2010-2015, 5% of transgender people nationwide had a professional (such as a psychologist, counselor, or religious advisor) try to change their gender identity to cisgender, with prevalence ranging from 1.2% in Alaska to 4.2% in Georgia to 16.3% in South Dakota.

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@GAEquality @equalitync @mwilsonGA Georgia has the opportunity to go even further by prohibiting mental health professionals from providing conversion therapy for minors, not just prohibiting public funding of conversion therapy - a great start by NC!

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@KlasfeldReports Thanks for article on NYC defending conversion therapy ban. A factual correction: 18 states and DC have passed this legislation. That is in addition to the counties and cities, like NYC, who have passed similar bans. See map at https://t.co/4suJItwoDV

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@PastorLowden My name is Roland Behm and I am writing to ask if we can have a conversation about LGBTQ youth and conversion therapy. Please see the attachment. All children deserve care that first, does no harm. #safeandsupported

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3/3 This 15% difference (23% vs 8%) means 1,500 youth would have attempted suicide if their states had not passed legislation outlawing conversion therapy.

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1/3 More than 10,000 LGBTQ youth who live in states that ban conversion therapy would have received treatment by age 18 had the ban not been in place. (Williams Institute, UCLA)

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2/3 23% of youth exposed to conversion therapy attempt suicide as compared to 8% of youth not so exposed. (The Trevor Project)