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![Emails reveal inner-workings of Virginia’s failed conversion therapy ban](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2018/11/30/cov.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
Emails reveal inner-workings of Virginia’s failed conversion therapy ban
Documents responsive to a request by Tom Nash shed light on a proposed conversion therapy ban in Virginia that failed last January. The documents include emails between experts and Doctor David Brown, Director of the Virginia Department of Health Professions, regarding a conversion therapy “workgroup” convened by Brown in October 2018, and a pair of bills, SB 245 and HB 363, seeking to ban the practice.
![Hawaii Becomes 12th state to ban conversion therapy for minors](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2018/06/25/HawaiiCov.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
Hawaii Becomes 12th state to ban conversion therapy for minors
Last month, Governor of Hawaii David Ige signed a bill into law preventing state-licensed medical professionals from performing sexual orientation or gender identity conversion therapy on anyone under 18, making the state the 12th so far to implement a ban.
![FTC release records regarding the Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2018/05/24/love.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
FTC release records regarding the Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act
In response to a FOIA request back in February, the Federal Trade Commission released 101 pages of documents regarding conversion therapy, a majority of which concern the Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act of 2017.