The Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act is a bill in the United States House of Representatives that if passed would prohibit, as an unfair and deceptive act or practice, commercial sexual orientation and gender identity conversion therapy, and for other purposes.

Through classifying for-profit conversion therapy as an unfair or deceptive act or practice, ergo consumer fraud, the bill would open violators up to prosecution by the Federal Trade Commission as well as civil lawsuits.

[3] On May 19, 2015, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA), who had authored the first such ban in California while State Senator in 2012, introduced the Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act (H.R.

On March 28, 2019, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) introduced the Prohibition of Medicaid Funding for Conversion Therapy Act (H.R.

Struggles with self-image and self-esteem result in significant health disparities for sexual minority youth related to depression and suicidality, substance abuse, social anxiety, altered body image, and other mental health issues.”[2] Legal scholarship has questioned the scope of the bill as it pertains to medical autonomy of adults as well as the feasibility of a nationwide ban.