Bill mandates insurance carriers cover discredited practice and would force people to list sex assigned at birth on drivers’ licenses
Hundreds of LGBTQ+ people gathered on the steps of the Florida state house on Wednesday to protest a first-in-the-nation bill that critics say would raise health insurance costs for all state residents.
The Republican-backed proposal, house bill 1639, mandates that insurance carriers cover conversion therapy, a scientifically discredited practice whose practitioners falsely claim to be able to change the sexual orientation or identity of LGBTQ+ people.
Continue reading…Bill mandates insurance carriers cover discredited practice and would force people to list sex assigned at birth on drivers’ licensesHundreds of LGBTQ+ people gathered on the steps of the Florida state house on Wednesday to protest a first-in-the-nation bill that critics say would raise health insurance costs for all state residents.The Republican-backed proposal, house bill 1639, mandates that insurance carriers cover conversion therapy, a scientifically discredited practice whose practitioners falsely claim to be able to change the sexual orientation or identity of LGBTQ+ people. Continue reading…