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Council holds first reading of ordinance to ban conversion therapy for minors; complaints would use existing nondiscrimination process
Summary
A first reading introduced a draft banning conversion/reparative therapy for minors by licensed mental‑health professionals and proposed folding complaints into Chapter 511 (the city's nondiscrimination complaint process); council members raised concerns about public‑record implications for minors and asked staff for research before the next reading.
City officials introduced a draft ordinance that would prohibit licensed mental‑health professionals from practicing conversion or reparative therapy on minors within Westerville city limits and place complaints under the city’s Chapter 511 nondiscrimination complaint process.
The city attorney said the draft draws from local and national ordinances and that multiple medical organizations oppose conversion therapy. "This is a practice that has,…
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