{"id":2410989,"date":"2018-12-18T13:07:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T20:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=289979"},"modified":"2018-12-18T13:07:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T20:07:28","slug":"denver-to-consider-banning-gay-conversion-therapy-on-minors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/denver-to-consider-banning-gay-conversion-therapy-on-minors\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver to consider banning gay conversion therapy on minors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denver&#8217;s Office of Human Rights and Community Partnerships has proposed banning conversion therapies aimed at changing the sexual orientation of minors.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal will be presented to a City Council committee Wednesday, according to Mayor Michael Hancock&#8217;s office. It will target state-licensed therapists with practices in the city and county who claim that being gay or transgender is a mental illness. The proposal comes following a recommendation by Denver&#8217;s\u00a0LGTBQ Commission, according to the news release.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These terrible practices that target our youth, simply for being who they are, are dangerous and immoral,&#8221; Hancock said in a statement. &#8220;We&#8217;re going to make sure that they never happen within our city.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In conversion therapy, counseling and psychotherapy is used\u00a0in an attempt to change a person&#8217;s sexual orientation. The American Psychiatric Association opposes the practice, saying same-sex orientation does not need to be changed and that efforts to do so risk harming individuals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2018\/12\/17\/denver-gay-conversion-therapy-ban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story from The Denver Post.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/denver-city-council-to-consider-banning-gay-conversion-therapy-on-minors\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver&#8217;s Office of Human Rights and Community Partnerships has proposed banning conversion therapies aimed at changing the sexual orientation of minors. The proposal will be presented to a City Council committee Wednesday, according to Mayor Michael Hancock&#8217;s office. It will target state-licensed therapists with practices in the city and county who claim that being gay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2410989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 23:33:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2410989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2410989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2410989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2410989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}