USA Today (6/15, Morin, Groppe) reports President Biden on Wednesday signed “an executive order…to offer new initiatives for the LGBT+ community, including addressing conversion therapy and expanding resources for mental health.” This new order “comes as state legislatures have passed multiple bills or executive orders that are anti-LGBTQ in recent months.”
Bloomberg (6/15, Ceron, Fabian) reports, “Under the order, HHS will ‘explore guidance’ that bars programs and organizations that receive federal funding from subjecting people to conversion therapy and provide support to those who have been subjected to such practices.” Also, the order “will include a commitment to expand mental-health resources that are inclusive of LGBTQ youth.”
Politico (6/15, Owermohle, Daniels) reports, “Biden is also directing HHS to take ‘steps to address the barriers and exclusionary policies’ to different types of health care and treatment.”
Related Links:
— “Biden signs executive order to address conversion therapy, anti-LGBTQ bills “Rebecca Morin and Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, June 15, 2022