(Lansing, MI) – The State Senate in Michigan has passed two bills that aim to end conversion therapy. The bills, House Bills 4616 and 4617, passed with a 21 to 15 vote. Only one Republican, Mark Huizenga of West Michigan, voted to pass the bills. The bills would ban state licensed providers from engaging in conversion therapy. Scientists say conversion therapy is a pseudoscientific that attempts to force a non-heterosexual person to become heterosexual.
Both bills now need to be signed by Governor Whitmer to become law.
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