Sign this petition from the Transgender Human Rights Institute: Enact Leelah’s Law to Ban Transgender Conversion Therapy
“In the pursuit of honoring Leelah’s last request we the petitioners call upon the President of the United State – Barack Obama, and the Leadership of the House and Senate to immediately seek a pathway for banning the practice known as ‘transgender conversion therapy’. We ask that you name the bill in memory of Leelah as Leelah Alcorn’s Law and protect the lives of transgender youth.
‘Conversion therapies’ have been documented to cause great harms and in this case, Leelah’s death. Therapists that engage in the attempt to brainwash or reverse any child’s gender identity are seriously unethical and legislation is needed to end such practices immediately. Transgender youth have one of the highest suicide rates in the nation. We must not allow therapists to increase those rates with therapy methodologies that have been demonstrated in harming transgender youth.
All major psychological associations speak to the heart of harms that can happen to transgender youth when attempting to discriminate and change their gender identity.”
Read the full petition and sign it here. I don’t usually share petitions because there are so many of them out there, but with so much conversation happening around this story, we may have a chance at getting legislative attention, and with Obama we have a sympathetic president!
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