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Washington DC<\/em><\/strong> \u2014<\/strong> U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley (both D-Ore) today announced they are co-sponsoring legislation that would ban so-called \u201cconversion therapy,\u201d a practice fraudulently claiming to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation or gender identity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cForcing Americans into sham therapy for a non-existent illness is medieval quackery, not modern science,\u201d dijo Wyden. <\/strong>\u201cThis legislation protects the LGBTQ+ community from forced treatment for something that doesn\u2019t need fixing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cSo-called \u2018conversion therapy\u2019 has been discredited by every mainstream medical association and is not legitimate medical care,\u201d dijo Merkley.<\/strong> \u201cIt\u2019s dangerous and ineffective, yet too many LGBTQ+ people are still being harmed by it. The Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act<\/em> will protect LGBTQ+ Americans from this fraudulent and damaging practice.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

El Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act <\/em>would ban a practice that has been recognized by the national community of professionals in health, education, social work, and counseling as both dangerous and ineffective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adem\u00e1s de Wyden y Merkley, la Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act<\/em> was co-sponsored by U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Catherine Cortez-Masto (D-Nev.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), John Fetterman (D-Pa.), Kristen Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), Andy Kim (D-N.J.), Angus King (D-Maine), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.),Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n (D-N.M.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt), Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), and led by Senators Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

El texto completo del proyecto de ley es aqu\u00ed<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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