Roeland Park becomes first city in Kansas with conversion therapy ban

The Roeland Park City Council Monday evening became the first city in the state to approve an ordinance banning conversion therapy. Roeland Park was at the forefront of LGBTQ+ rights in the state in 2014 when it passed a non-discrimination ordinance. In the years that followed, more than a dozen Johnson County cities followed suit. Councilmember Benjamin Dickens, one of the ordinance’s three sponsors, said the conversion therapy ban has this same potential.