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26 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Lots of empty Senate seats in Puerto Rico today for the 2nd day of hearings into a possible ban on conversion therapy - which doesn’t work and is harmful to human beings, according to ever major medical organization.
📷: @ajvalentincama
This was Wednesday’s hearing
Most all of these witnesses are testifying against conversion therapy and telling horror stores of what enduring it and most of the Senators can’t even show up.
For anyone asking about “conversion therapy”hrc.org/resources/the-…

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15 Mar
Public hearings will begin next week in Puerto Rico about a bill in the Senate to ban conversion therapy forever. Presently, conversion therapy is banned by an executive order signed by fmr. Gov @ricardorossello. Here’s what leading medical associations says about that therapy👇🏻
The American Academy of child and adolescent psychiatry finds “no evidence to support the application of any “therapeutic intervention” operating under the premise that a specific sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or gender expression is pathological...”
“...Furthermore, based on scientific evidence, the AACAP asserts that such “conversion therapies” (or other interventions imposed with the intent of promoting a particular sexual orientation and/or gender as a preferred outcome) lack scientific credibility & clinical utility...”
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