Biden Administration Cracks Down , on Conversion Therapy.<br />Biden Administration Cracks Down , on Conversion Therapy.<br />Cracks Down on .<br />On June 15, the White House announced that <br />President Joe Biden will sign an executive order called <br />the "Advancing Equality for LGBTQI+ Individuals." .<br />On June 15, the White House announced that <br />President Joe Biden will sign an executive order called <br />the "Advancing Equality for LGBTQI+ Individuals." .<br />According to a statement, the order is aimed <br />at cracking down on the "discredited and <br />dangerous practice" of conversion therapy.<br />According to a statement, the order is aimed <br />at cracking down on the "discredited and <br />dangerous practice" of conversion therapy.<br />Yahoo reports that the order directs the <br />Department of Health and Human Services <br />to expand access to mental health resources. .<br />The executive order also calls on HHS to, "study and address the disproportionate rates <br />of child removals that LGBTQI+ parents face, <br />especially women of color.".<br />I have no room in my heart for hatred <br />and I have no time for intolerance, <br />but we don't live in a world where everyone <br />feels that way, and this administration <br />understands that more action is needed, Rachel Levine, HHS Assistant Secretary <br />for Health Admiral, via Yahoo.<br />I have no room in my heart for hatred <br />and I have no time for intolerance, <br />but we don't live in a world where everyone <br />feels that way, and this administration <br />understands that more action is needed, Rachel Levine, HHS Assistant Secretary <br />for Health Admiral, via Yahoo.<br />The president of the conservative Ethics <br />and Public Policy Center, Ryan T. Anderson, <br />called the executive order "Orwellian.".<br />According to Anderson, the proposal , "would prevent efforts to help girls identify as girls. <br />That's what they're calling 'conversion therapy.'".<br />Meanwhile it'll expand efforts to give <br />girls puberty blockers and testosterone. <br />That's what they're calling <br />'gender affirmation.', Ryan T. Anderson, president of the conservative <br />Ethics and Public Policy Center, via Yahoo.<br />Politico reports that the executive order comes <br />after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis moved <br />to end gender-affirming care for minors. .<br />Earlier this month, Florida's Surgeon General <br />moved to have the Florida Board of Medicine <br />establish a prohibitive "standard of care." .<br />The "standard of care" would ban doctors from providing puberty blockers, hormone therapy and gender-reassignment surgery to minors
