Bloomington has two practitioners of widely discredited “conversion.”
Bloomington is among the latest Minnesota cities taking steps to outlaw conversion therapy for minors and vulnerable adults, a ban that would affect at least two providers employing the discredited practice within city limits.
OutFront Minnesota, an LGBTQ advocacy group, found that unlike Minneapolis, St. Paul, West St. Paul, Duluth, Robbinsdale, Red Wing, Winona and Rochester — which have approved conversion therapy bans in recent years — Bloomington has two licensed providers offering conversion therapy to minors. The practice aims to change an individual’s sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.
In St. Louis Park, where the council is considering a resolution denouncing conversion therapy — similar to a measure Golden Valley passed last March — there is at least one provider that offers therapy for “unwanted same-sex attraction,” according to the website of Agape Christian Counselors. Messages left with founder and counselor David Hovis were not returned. Continue reading.
