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## Video: Obama Supports Ban Of LGBTQ Conversion Therapy

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_Published 2015-04-09. President Obama announced he supports banning therapy that tries to convert LGBTQ individuals._


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## Transcript

On Wednesday, The White House announced, President Obama is in support of banning LGBTQ Plus conversion therapy. The controversial practice of trying to change a person's gender identity or sexual orientation, which is usually practiced on minors. Pictures of explicit acts between men would be shown, and I'd be electrocuted. Obama's move came in response to a petition calling for a national law banning the practice that had more than 120, 000 signatures. The law the petition calls for would be named after Lela Alcorn, a transgender teenager who committed suicide last year after her parents forced her undergo conversion therapy.

In a statement the Obama administration said, The overwhelming scientific evidence demonstrates that conversion therapy, especially when it is practiced on young people, is neither medically nor ethically appropriate and can cause substantial harm. This Administration supports efforts to ban the use of conversion therapy for minors. But the response to the petition is mostly symbolic. The President says he would sign a bill banning conversion therapy, but it would have to come through Congress.

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