“Conversion therapy is a harmful, widely-discredited practice that has no place in Maine,” Governor Janet Mills said at the signing ceremony.
Maine’s Democratic Governor Janet Mills on Wednesday signed into law a statewide ban on gay conversion therapy targeting minors, joining 16 other states plus the District of Columbia that have enacted similar bans.
“Conversion therapy is a harmful, widely-discredited practice that has no place in Maine,” Mills said at the signing ceremony. “By signing this bill into law today, we send an unequivocal message to young LGBTQ people in Maine and across the country: we stand with you, we support you and we will always defend your right to be who you are.”
A 2018 study from UCLA’s Williams Institute estimated that 20,000 American youth will undergo conversion therapy from a licensed practitioner before they turn 18; another 57,000 are estimated to experience the practice from a religious or spiritual advisor before adulthood. The Movement Advancement Project , a non-profit that researches LGBT equality, writes that many of the statewide bans currently in place “do not restrict the practice among religious providers.” MAP also estimates that 57 percent of the LGBT population live in states that do not ban conversion therapy whatsoever.
MAP wrote in a 2017 report that psychological research has clearly demonstrated that conversion therapy results “in long-lasting damage.”
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