Action | Unprofessional conduct/conversion therapy |
Stage | NOIRA |
Comment Period | Ended on 8/7/2019 |
I support a ban on conversion therapy for minors. My argument is simple: studies show conversion therapy and/or similar practices increase suicide rates in homosexuals. Participating in behavior that meaningfully increases the death rate of a minor is a form of child abuse. Child abuse should not be legal. Therefore putting a child in conversion therapy should not be legal. I think any parent that subjects a child to conversion therapy is, as far as we can tell from our current studies, putting that child at risk of death.