HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2019.07.18 - 32080REPORT MISC. #19212) July 18, 2019
BY: Commissioner Nancy Quarles, Chairperson, Legislative Affairs and Government Operations
Committee
IN RE: MR #19212 — BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS — SUPPORT FOR MICHIGAN SB 284, BANNING
"CONVERSION THERAPY" AS A MEANS OF CHANGING AN INDIVIDUAL'S SEXUAL
ORIENTATION OR GENDER IDENTITY
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
The Legislative Affairs and Government Operations Committee, having reviewed the above -referenced
resolution on July 8, 2019, reports with the recommendation that the resolution be adopted.
Chairperson, on behalf of the Legislative Affairs and Government Operations Committee, I move the
acceptance of the foregoing report.
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Chairperson, Legislative Affairs and Government
Operations Committee
LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS COMMITTEE VOTE:
Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote with Gingell absent.
MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #19212
BY: Commissioners Helaine Zack, District#18; Kristen Nelson, District #5,1.3f`tads. \1aA. 11-(
IN RE: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS — SUPPORT FOR MICHIGAN SB 284, BANNING
"CONVERSION THERAPY" AS A MEANS OF CHANGING AN INDIVIDUAL'S SEXUAL ORIENTATION
OR GENDER IDENTITY
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS "conversion therapy" is an attempt to change someone's sexual orientation or gender identity
through tactics as obvious as hypnosis or as subtle as inducing shame; and
WHEREAS "conversion therapy" has been discredited by dozens of medical associations and child -welfare
institutions, including: American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; American Academy of
Pediatrics; American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy; American College of Physicians;
American Counseling Association; American Medical Association; American Psychiatric Association;
American Psychoanalytic Association; American Psychological Association; American School Counselor
Association; American School Health Association; National Association of Social Workers; and the Pan
American Health Organization: Regional Office of the World Health Organization; and
WHEREAS in 2018, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry released the following
policy statement, "The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry finds no evidence to support
the application of any "therapeutic intervention" operating under the premise that a specific sexua!
orientation, gender identity, and/or gender expression is pathological. Furthermore, based on the scientific
evidence, the AACAP asserts that such "conversion therapies" (or other interventions imposed with the
intent of promoting a particular sexual orientation and/or gender as a preferred outcome) lack scientific
credibility and clinical utility. Additionally, there is evidence that such interventions are harmful. As a result,
"conversion therapies" should not be part of any behavioral health treatment of children and adolescents.';
and
WHEREAS minors are especially vulnerable, and "conversion therapy" can lead to depression, anxiety,
drug use, homelessness, and suicide; and
WHEREAS resolutions either condemning or banning the practice of "conversion therapy" have been
passed by more than 50 municipalities across the country; and
WHEREAS momentum is gathering throughout the country to ban the practice of "conversion therapy" as
Colorado became the 18th state to pass a ban on May 31, 2019; and
WHEREAS the City of Huntington Woods, an Oakland County community, became the first governmental
agency in the State of Michigan to pass an ordinance banning the practice of "conversion therapy" on June
4, 2019.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners call upon the
members of the Michigan legislature to add Michigan to the growing number of states that are recognizing
the need to ban the ineffective and harmful practice of "conversion therapy" by mental health professionals
through the passage of Senate Bill 284.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Clerk/Register of Deeds is requested to forward
copies of this adopted resolution to all Oakland County cities, villages, and townships, the Governor of the
State of Michigan, the members of the Michigan congressional delegation, the State Senate Majority and
Minority leaders, the State House Speaker and Minority leader, the members of the Oakland County
delegation to the Michigan Legislature.
Chairperson, we move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
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Resolution #19212 June 12, 2019
The Chairperson referred the resolution to the Legislative Affairs and Government Operations Committee.
There were no objections.
Resolution #19212 July 18, 2019
Moved by Zack seconded by Nelson the resolution be adopted.
Moved by Quarles seconded by Zack the Legislative Affairs and Government Operations Committee Report
be accepted.
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the report \Ives accepted.
Discussion followed.
Moved by Taub seconded Zack the resolution be amended as follows:
Add after the 6th WHEREAS Statement —
WHEREAS the Oakland Community Health Network, the primary public mental health service
provider in Oakland County, has indicated their opposition to the practice of "conversion
therapy" and support of efforts to ban its practice by certified mental health practitioners; and
Vote on amendment:
AYES: Kochenderfer, Kowall, Kuhn, Long, Luebs, Markham, McGillivray, Middleton, Miller,
Nelson, Powell, Quarles, Spisz, Taub, Weipert, Woodward, Zack, Gershenson, Gingell, Hoffman,
Jackson. (21)
NAYS: None, (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the amendment carried.
Vote on resolution, as amended:
AYES: Kowall, Kuhn, Long, Luebs, Markham, McGillivray, Middleton, Miller, Nelson, Powell,
Quarles, Spisz, Taub, VVelpert, Woodward, Zack, Gershensort, Gingell, Hoffman, Jackson,
Kochenderfer, (21)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolution, as amended, was adopted.
DOS NOT REWJIRE COVNTY EXECUTIVE ACTIC
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Lisa Brown, Clerk of the County of Oakland, do hereby certify that the foregoing resolution is a true and
accurate copy of a resolution adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners on July 18, 2019,
with the original record thereof now remaining in my office.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Circuit Court at Pontiac,
Michigan this 18th day of July, 2019.
Lisa Brown, Oakland County