{"id":1089085,"date":"2023-06-15T16:38:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T16:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=19c88970e4037ee09096e6121f7fc1b5"},"modified":"2023-06-15T16:38:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T16:38:28","slug":"michigan-legislature-advances-bills-to-ban-conversion-therapy-in-the-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/06\/15\/michigan-legislature-advances-bills-to-ban-conversion-therapy-in-the-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Legislature Advances Bills to Ban Conversion Therapy in the State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Michigan state legislature advanced two bills on Wednesday that would prohibit mental health professionals from subjecting LGBTQ minors to anti-LGBTQ &ldquo;conversion therapy.&rdquo; Health professionals widely agree that the discredited pseudo-therapeutic practice &mdash; which attempts to change an LGBTQ person&rsquo;s sexual orientation or gender identity &mdash; is incredibly dangerous. Indeed, decades of studies have&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/michigan-legislature-advances-bills-to-ban-conversion-therapy-in-the-state\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The incredibly dangerous practice is currently banned in just 21 states and Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1460,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7239,7759,48909,1626,4559,4,62602,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1089129,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089085\/revisions\/1089129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}