The Line: State Lawmakers Consider Bill To Ban Conversion Therapy

February 17, 2017 – State Senator Jacob Candelaria and State Representative Andrés Romero introduced legislation this session that would outlaw conversion therapy in New Mexico, which would include:

“any practice or treatment that seeks to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity, including any effort to change behaviors or gender expressions or to eliminate or reduce sexual or romantic attractions or feelings toward persons of the same sex.”

Host Gene Grant and this week’s Line opinion panelists discuss the legislation and what the support among lawmakers so far might say about current attitudes in New Mexico.

Read the full bill here

 

LINE PANELISTS

Dan Foley, former New Mexico house minority whip
Tom Garrity, The Garrity Group PR
Julie Ann Grimm, editor, Santa Fe Reporter
Antoinette Sedillo-Lopez, Enlace Comunitario