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A Voice in the Room: The Function of State Legislative Bans on Sexual Orientation Change Efforts for Minors

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Despite their shortcomings, state bans on SOCE for minors are an important development in legislative efforts to build a safer and more inclusive culture for LGBT youth. In the past fifteen years, for instance, California has passed several other archetypal laws to protect LGBT youth and encourage LGBT tolerance, including laws that: require public schools to include LGBT community’s achievements in their history curricula; create competency standards for foster parents of LGBT youth;186 impose compliance standards on public schools’ discipline of anti-LGBT bullying; and increase access to mental health services for at-risk youth.188 Like these laws, state bans on SOCE for minors increase the visibility of LGBT people in general, and youth in particular, and promote equality and awareness of LGBT-specific problems. Bans on SOCE strongly underscore, to both the professional and lay communities, that LGBT youth are neither sick nor in need of treatment. At least in that sense, these statutes work to defend LGBT minors’ rights each time SOCE are requested of a psychotherapist. In short, although they may seem little more than an expression of a state’s stance on the matter, SOCE bans are valuable as the proverbial “voice in the room” that disempowered minors need

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Judul Seri

American Journal of Law & Medicine

No. Panggil

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Boston : American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics Boston University School of Law., 2014

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American Journal of Law & Medicine, 40 (2014): 113-140

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English

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40 (2014)

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ILMU HUKUM

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