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In what can only be described as an encouraging move, Jerry Brown has signed a bill banning homosexual reversal therapy for minors, making California the first state in the US to make the harmful practice illegal. Personally, I can think of few more sinister practices than this. Conversion therapy not only mischaracterises sexuality as modes of wellness or illness but presses upon people the notion that what they feel not only ought to be fixed, but can be fixed. The President of the HRC, among others, applauded the move, saying that LGBT youth "will now be protected from a practice that has not only been debunked as junk science, but has been proven to have drastically negative effects on their well-being."
One can only hope that other states will follow California's lead. And I think the sensible ones will. Sorry, Marcus Bachmann.