{"id":135974,"date":"2024-09-21T18:09:17","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T18:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=135974"},"modified":"2024-09-21T18:09:20","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T18:09:20","slug":"kentucky-governor-bans-conversion-therapy-setting-up-legal-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=135974","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Kentucky governor bans conversion therapy, setting up legal battle&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2024\/09\/18\/kentucky-conversion-therapy-lgbtq-legal-battle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WaPo<\/a>: &#8220;Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) on Wednesday signed an executive order banning \u201cconversion therapy\u201d for minors \u2014 skirting the Republican-led state legislature and setting up a likely legal challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beshear said the new policy, which goes into effect immediately, is an overdue step to protect children from a widely discredited medical practice that attempts to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation or gender identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cKentucky cannot possibly reach its full potential unless it is free from discrimination by or against any citizen \u2014 unless all our people feel welcome in our spaces, free from unjust barriers and supported to be themselves,\u201d said Beshear, who is one of two Democratic governors in the South.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: &#8220;Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) on Wednesday signed an executive order banning \u201cconversion therapy\u201d for minors \u2014 skirting the Republican-led state legislature and setting up a likely legal challenge. Beshear said the new policy, which goes into effect immediately, is an overdue step to protect children from a widely discredited medical practice that attempts&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135975,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135974\/revisions\/135975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}