Appeals court overturns local Florida bans on conversion therapy
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U.S.- A federal appeals court on Friday ruled against local conversion therapy bans in Florida, saying they violated First Amendment protections. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court’s decision not to place preliminary injunctions against the ordinances in Palm Beach County and the city of Boca Raton, which is in Broward County.
The panel said that if laws ban therapists from attempting to change LGBTQ youths’ sexual orientation or gender identity, then jurisdictions could also ban therapists from providing support for the same clients. “If the speech restrictions in these ordinances can stand, then so can their inverse,” said the majority opinion written by Judge Barbara Lagoa. (UI News)
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