President Joe Biden has signed an executive order that seeks to address conversion therapy, a practice that attempts to change an individual’s sexual orientation from homosexual or bisexual to heterosexual or their gender identity from transgender to cisgender using either physical, psychological, or spiritual tactics.
The order asks the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish an initiative to “reduce the risk of youth exposure to so-called conversion therapy.”
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been asked to determine whether conversion therapy is an “unfair or deceptive act or practice” as well as issue “appropriate” consumer warnings. Biden’s executive order also includes a plan to use the global influence of the United States to address conversion therapy across the world….