Discredited conversion therapy banned in Fayette County

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s second largest county has banned state-licensed providers from practicing discredited practice of conversion therapy for LGBTQ children. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports that the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council on Thursday voted unanimously to enact the conversion therapy ban immediately. Conversion therapy is a practice used to try to change sexual orientation or gender identity. Many people who have been through it say it deepened feelings of depression and increased thoughts of suicide The newspaper reports that Lexington is believed to be the third city in Kentucky to ban conversion therapy for LGBTQ youth.