I urge immediate action to ban so-called "conversion therapy," a practice that has been fully discredited as unnecessary and harmful by the medical community. This guidance protects young people from state-licensed therapists in Virginia who falsely claim to parents and youth that being LGBTQ is a mental illness, and therefore taking advantage of parents and harming vulnerable youth. These harmful practices use rejection, shame, and psychological abuse to force young people to try and change who they are.