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DES MOINES (AP) — The Iowa Board of Psychology has voted to deny a petition that would have prohibited licensed mental health providers from counseling gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender children to change their sexual orientation in a practice known as conversion therapy.

Board members all expressed support Friday for banning the therapy method but said the place to do so isn’t through a professional board but through the Legislature, television station WHO reported.

The petition seeking a ban, submitted in February, was signed by 695 people. It said a third of LGBT individuals report being sent to a therapist or religious leader to “cure, treat or change their sexual orientation.”

An Iowa Board of Medicine committee also discussed a ban on the therapy Friday but took no action. Panel Chairman Ronald Cheney said the group needs more study before making a recommendation to the full board.

That board, which licenses and regulates Iowa’s medical doctors, also was petitioned in February. The board denied the petition in April, saying it needed more information and assigned the four-member committee to study it.

The Obama administration in April called for an end to conversion therapy.