Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear issued an executive order banning so-called "conversion therapy" for minors on Wednesday, September 18.
The order makes it illegal to utilize state or federal funding to support conversion therapy programs for minors. The order provides licensing boards the ability to take action on licensees if they are caught conducting conversion therapy on minors.
Previously, Beshear vetoed a bill prohibiting sex changes for minors. The Republican-dominated Kentucky General Assembly ultimately overturned the veto with their supermajorities. Beshear's order does not include a prohibition against sex change treatments.
"Kentucky cannot possibly reach its full potential unless it is free from discrimination by or against any citizen – unless all our people feel welcome in our spaces, free from unjust barriers and supported to be themselves," Beshear announced in a press release. "Conversion therapy has no basis in medicine or science, and it can cause significant long-term harm to our kids, including increased rates of suicide and depression. This is about protecting our youth from an inhumane practice that hurts them."
Conversion therapy is the practice of clinically trying to stop individuals from being attracted to someone of the same sex and changing an individual's "sexual orientation" or "gender identity," the order states.
Louisville, the state's largest city, outlawed the practice in 2020. Beshear's order covers the whole state. The governor's order cites a claim that leading mental health and medical organizations in the United States have spoken out against conversion therapy.
Kentucky governor's order violates the rights of parents and stifles religious expression
Several experts have claimed that laws prohibiting conversion therapy keep therapists from aiding individuals to understand their biological sex.
The Family Foundation, a socially conservative group in Kentucky, stated Beshear's order violates the rights of parents and stifles religious expression. It mentioned the ban as an "unlawful action," possibly signaling a legal challenge. (Related: LGBTQ CHILD EXPLOITATION AGENDA: Projects and businesses caught pushing kids into gender-bender drugs and genitalia-mutilation surgery without parental permission)
"This order, like previous failed legislative efforts, is designed to promote false LGBTQ ideologies and muzzle Christian counselors, therapists and pastors from helping children struggling with sexual orientation or gender identity confusion," David Walls, the group's executive director, said in a statement.
Walls added that their organization will "continue to believe that parents and their children should be free to seek counseling that they desire to seek, including faith-based counseling."
While the order bans conversion therapy, it still permits minors to undergo sex change "practice, treatment or intervention."
"He can't just issue an executive order and prescribe law. This is really basic Con Law 101 stuff, and I think the governor knows it, frankly. He's not stupid, but he gets the headlines, and he excites the base," Chris Wiest, an attorney in northern Kentucky that is taking legal action against the order.
According to Daniel Schmid, a legal executive with Liberty Counsel, which depicts itself as a Christian ministry, the ban runs "roughshod over the First Amendment."
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