Here's why the people trying to keep conversion therapy going are all wrong...

They need to stop using copy pasta. Really. Make some heartfelt or logical arguments with your own sources/information. The people who post the same four/five bullets arguments are putting in the least effort possible to put in their two cents. At least make it your own two cents.

Invoking the First Amendment is a really bad move if you want to ensure that religious conversion therapy is official guidance that the government is willing to suggest it for any patients. The First Amendment is, in actuality, an argument to ban conversion therapy as a formally suggested practice, because conversion therapy is intrinsically religious in nature... and would thus represent a formal endorsement (establishment clause) of religious practices by the government. Anyone making a "naturalist" or "scientific" argument for conversion therapy is going to lose that argument very quickly (see Brynn Tannehill's comment for a comprehensive list of reasons why).

Regarding Code Sec. 1-240.1 - no one is stopping you from sending your kid to conversion therapy if you feel that's appropriate. Your "fundamental rights" are not being infringed upon. Your entitlement is being confronted. There is a huge difference. You're still free to find a preacher, pastor, or whatever religious leader to help you traumatize your kid until they grow up and escape your awful influence.

Oh my gosh, if we ban conversion therapy what's next? Banning circumcision? YES. The government SHOULDN'T be in the practice of endorsing harmful practices like conversion therapy. How hard is that to grasp?

A federal lawsuit was why the NYC board repealed their ban on conversion therapy, but that doesn't paint the full picture. The board amended the ban to apply to minors only, and it has since been superseded by a NY State law that also bans conversion therapy. Get your facts straight folks.

Some of you need to hear this. Your children are not your property. Ok? You do not own them, you are responsible for them. Forcing them to be who you want them to be will only make you angry and bitter. Let them be their own person (perhaps the person your God intended them to be?).

Lastly, if you folks want conversion therapy so badly... prove it works. Do the hard work of proving your hypothesis. Measure outcomes and do the science needed to prove your point. Then report it regardless of how it turns out. Because until then, no one has any reasonable expectation that conversion therapy is anything more than religious trauma wrapped in a quasi-feelgood parents' rights package.

I support the ban on conversion therapy. It's the 21st century and we're still arguing over a person's freedom to discover their gender identity. Can you knuckledraggers stop holding our species back? We have other things to do.