When a parent elects to submit their child to conversion therapy they are harming rather than helping their child.  This process no more will change their child then does praying for their child but with many more ill effects.  Conversion therapy has no support in the scientific community.  Just as homosexuality is no longer considered an illness by the APA.  Perhaps it is the parent who is being provided succor by forcing the child to undergo conversion therapy.  Would this same parent force a physically ill child to undergo a useless and painful therapy for measles or TB or any other physical illness?  I doubt it.