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Council reviews draft ordinance to ban conversion therapy for minors; members seek legal clarifications
Summary
Council heard the first reading of a draft ordinance that would add a ban on conversion therapy for minors to the city’s nondiscrimination ordinance; staff outlined complaint and enforcement procedures and councilmembers raised concerns about public-record and confidentiality implications.
City staff presented a draft ordinance (Ordinance 2025-02) in the council’s first reading that would prohibit licensed mental health professionals from practicing so-called conversion or reparative therapy on minors within Westerville city limits by amending the city’s nondiscrimination ordinance (Chapter 5.11).
The presenter described conversion therapy as attempts to change a person’s gender expression, identity or sexual orientation and cited…
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