The House Judiciary Committee advanced two LGBTQ-related bills on the same evening: HB 26-1322, removing the statute of limitations for civil claims by conversion therapy survivors against licensed mental health practitioners, passed 7-2, and SB 18, suppressing court records for minor name changes and removing the newspaper publication requirement, passed 7-4, both referred to the Committee of the Whole.
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Erin Meshke argued 'there are no protections for detransitioners in HB 2613 22, and recent attempts for those protections have been killed,' while Missy Espinosa stated a prior bill limiting medical intervention claims for minors 'had a limit, and you guys killed it. This bill is unlimited in every way,' directly contesting bill sponsors' framing that the bill is even-handed. Shannon Minter countered that if a therapist pressured a young person toward being transgender, 'the bill would protect that young person as well.'
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“Survivors may not immediately recognize what happened as harm because a lot of times this happens when someone is very young. That was the pattern back then. It remains the pattern today. The delay is not incidental. It is a direct result of shame and what is embedded with you within that practice, which is something's wrong with you.”
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Sign in to subscribeThe committee will come to order. Shipley, please call the roll. Representatives Bacon. Clifford. Here. Espinoza. Flinell. Here. Garcia. Here. Kelty. Excused. Sloth. Excused. Soper. Zokai. Excused. Carter. Mr. Chair here. All right, folks, we got two bills today. We have a decent amount of witnesses, and we're getting started later in the day. So I am going to have witness testimony be trim to 2 minutes and I will do 15 minute panels for questions. And we are going to start with House Bill 1322. Whoever would like to begin. Rep. Valdez. Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, Committee. It's interesting to be back in judiciary for like the second time in two weeks or something like that. It's not normal for me, but I am excited to be here this afternoon, this evening with a wonderful bill. So for those of you who don't know, and I wouldn't blame you if you didn't, I grew up in the early 1990s, and this was a time when things like conversion therapy were normal. And we heard stories about this from our peers. But more importantly, I think the literature of the time for LGBTQ people became centered around…
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