New York governor to ban insurers from funding gay 'conversion therapy'

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

New York governor to ban insurers from funding gay 'conversion therapy'

Andrew Cuomo to announce executive action against ‘hateful and
fundamentally flawed practice’ upon receiving Human Rights Campaign award

Edward Helmore in New York
Saturday 6 February 2016 22.27 GMT

New York governor Andrew Cuomo was set on Saturday to announce a ban on public and private health insurers paying for “conversion therapy” – designed to alter sexual orientation or gender identity – and prohibiting state mental health facilities from conducting the controversial practice on minors.

The executive action, which the governor was to announce on receiving a National Equality Award from the Human Rights Campaign on Saturday night, will make it illegal for any organization licensed or funded by the state to offer such “therapy”.

New York has long been at the forefront of gay rights movement, Cuomo said in a statement. He called conversion therapy a “hateful and fundamentally flawed practice that is counter to everything this state stands for”.

Conversion therapies have long been opposed by the American Psychiatric Association; a recent federal report concluded they were “inappropriate and reinforce harmful gender stereotypes”.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/06/new-york-gay-conversion-therapy-insurance-ban-andrew-cuomo

[Plappergeist]

1. It is good that insurance won't pay for it in NY

... but isn't medical quackery already 100% illegal?

You know, like people can go to prison for it?

[RKP5637]

2. Excellent! n/t