The Alliance for Progressive Values took the lead on helping get this bill before the GA. Victoria Bragunier, Policy Director for APV, said the practice of conversion therapy harkens back to the days of shock treatment and the use of dangerous drugs. Add to that the main stream mental health communities’ acceptance of homosexuality and you’re left with a pseudo science option for an issue that requires no treatment. “With that kind of quackery, it lays open a minefield field abuse for people who don’t have a mental disorder. When you throw into that treatment for children, the vulnerability is dangerous.”
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APV and Delegate Hope are looking for more voices to help defend the bill HB1135. If you are a VA resident who was forced into reparative therapy as a minor, you can reach Del. Hopes Office at (703) 486-1010 or via email patrick.hope@verizon.net or reach out to APV’s Victoria Bragunier at 804-517-5206, or email vbragunier@apvonline.org
