Arizona Governor Signs 2 Pro-LGBTQ Executive Order

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Arizona Republic. “The state is leading by example on this issue, and we will continue working until Arizona is a place where every individual can participate equally in our economy and our workforce without fear of discrimination or exclusion,” Hobbs said in prepared remarks. “This is the only way to move our state forward.”Under Hobbs’s first executive order, state agencies will be prohibited from using funds to promote or facilitate conversion therapy, or efforts to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity based on the belief that LGBTQ identities are pathologies that can be suppressed or even “cured.”Most major medical and mental health organizations have denounced conversion therapy as unscientific and, more importantly, ineffective at achieving its purported goals — namely, the ability to radically and permanently  “change” a person’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or feelings of sexual attraction, as opposed to simply providing subjects with techniques that help them resist giving into or acknowledging their feelings or desires.

Among the organizations denouncing the practice are the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Counseling Association, the American Psychiatric Association, and the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.A 2009 report by the American Psychological Association found that practices typically used in conversion therapy are ineffective and may even be detrimental to a person’s mental well-being.

Negative side effects from conversion therapy may include increased depression, anxiety, feelings of isolation, and suicidal ideation.Notably, these effects are possible not only if a person is subjected to intense physical.