LGBTQ+ people protest in Florida over Republican conversion therapy bill

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Bill mandates insurance carriers cover discredited practice and would force people to list sex assigned at birth on driver’s licenses

Hundreds of LGBTQ+ people gathered on the steps of the Florida state house on Wednesday to protest against 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.

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