A subcommittee of the South Carolina Senate Medical Affairs Committee will hold another hearing this week – Thursday, February 10 at 9:30am – on S.811, a bill that would target LGBTQ people people for discrimination in healthcare and now, sanction the anti-LGBTQ practice of so-called "conversion therapy," or the debunked practice of trying to change someone's sexual orientation or gender identity. Lawmakers will propose an amendment to the bill that they’re calling a “right of conscience” provision, but the effect is that it will make it impossible for localities in our state to protect LGBTQ minors from “conversion therapy.”

The amendment is a direct response on the city of Columbia, SC's correct and ethical decision to pass a local ordinance protecting minors from anti-LGBTQ 'conversion therapy.' Now, discriminatory lawmakers want to undo Columbia's ordinance and forbid any other jurisdiction from passing protections from the dangerous, traumatic impacts of 'conversion therapy.'

South Carolina, it’s time to speak out again: use these tools to pressure lawmakers to #StopS811 by sending a letter to the committee members and your Senator.