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Maryland Lawmakers Just Banned Gay Conversion Therapy
“This is a discredited practice, and we’re just trying to align our law to that degree."
On Wednesday, Maryland's House of Delegates passed a ban on gay conversion therapy for minors. The bill had already passed the state's Senate and now goes to Governor Larry Hogan for his signature.
"This is a discredited practice, and we're just trying to align our law to that degree," Rich Madaleno, the gay senator that created the bill, said in an interview with The Washington Post.
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If this bill is signed, Maryland will join 11 other states that have banned the practice.
"Conversion therapy is a torturous process in which a minor is robbed of their true identity," Madaleno said during a hearing on the bill. "They are forced into changing their sexual orientation or their gender identity."
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