When I was 14, I told my parents that I was a lesbian.  They promptly enrolled me in "Christian Therapy" which was a polite euphemism for conversion therapy.  My counselor was a very kind, loving, Christian woman.  I genuinely believe that she had no ill intent and was doing the very best she thought she could for her patients.  But she still caused me extreme emotional distress and psychological torment.  I was angry and hated myself.  I developed an eating disorder and had to be hospitalized because I just wanted to die.  I was convinced that I was broken and wrong.  If my own parents couldn't accept me for who I was, nobody else would either.  My parents didn't own a gun.  If they did, I would be dead now because only my intense fear of knives and needles kept me alive.  

And then after I left home, I embraced my identity.  I am now a happily married mother of 3 children.  I no longer have an eating disorder or any suicidal ideation or depression.  Trying to make children be someone they aren't is emotional and psychological abuse.  Conversion therapy should be an option for consenting adults.  It is not appropriate for children.  Please act in the interest of children.  Nobody is asking you to accept LGBT people.  All I'm asking you to do is to recognize that CHILDREN are too young for any form of sexual therapy.