{"id":30334,"date":"2020-01-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/22\/utah-bans-so-called-gay-conversion-therapy\/"},"modified":"2020-01-23T17:10:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T17:10:06","slug":"utah-bans-so-called-gay-conversion-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/22\/utah-bans-so-called-gay-conversion-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah Bans So-Called Gay &#8216;Conversion&#8217; Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The ban could give support to people challenging the practice in other right-leaning states<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>WEDNESDAY, Jan. 22, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Utah has banned the discredited practice of conversion therapy for LGBTQ children.<\/p>\n<p>It is the 19th state and one of the most conservative to outlaw the practice that seeks to change a person&#8217;s sexual orientation or gender identity, the <i>Associated Press<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The ban in Utah could give support to people challenging the practice in other right-leaning states, according to Shannon Minter, legal director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights. &#8220;It&#8217;s really given people a lot of hope,&#8221; Minter told the <i>AP<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The group has pushed for bans on conversion therapy nationwide. Virginia is considering a ban, and the issue may come up this year in Texas and Kentucky, Minter said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/d6020dfe0bff8190df069a4e4cd7d3b7\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>AP News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ban could give support to people challenging the practice in other right-leaning states<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":30351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-30334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}