Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs issued executive orders Tuesday halting use of public funds for 'conversion therapy'' while mandating it for 'gender affirming health care.'
Howard Fischer PHOENIX — Gov. Katie Hobbs issued executive orders Tuesday to halt the use of public funds for"conversion therapy'' while mandating them for"gender affirming health care.'' The first order affects AHCCCS patients as well as state government and university employees and retirees, while the second covers current and former state government and university workers.
People are also reading… Also affected are any mental health services available to individuals and families enrolled in the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, the state's Medicaid program. About 2.5 million state residents are enrolled in AHCCCS. That will most immediately affect Russell Toomey, a transgender professor at the University of Arizona who filed suit four years ago after he was denied coverage for a long-sought hysterectomy.
"The state is leading by example on this issue,'' she continued."And we will continue working until Arizona is a place where every individual can participate equally in our economy and workforce without fear of discrimination or exclusion.'' Pima County already bans the therapyShe cited the findings of various organizations that oppose the practice of conversion therapy on minors because of what they say are dangerous effects.
What Hobbs said she can do, in her duty to taxpayers, is"ensure that decisions are fiscally sound, transparent, and evidence-based, and that public healthcare funds are not spent on discredited, ineffective, and unsafe practices.'' There have been successful challenges in other states to that exclusion, Hobbs said. So she ordered it removed"as soon as practicable,'' with notice provided to state and university employees enrolled in the system.
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