My parents tried to send me to conversion therapy when I lived in Alabama. I moved up here to get away from a painful situation that nearly got me killed.

Conversion therapy kills. An incredibly high number of people who are subjected to conversion therapy kill themselves from it, and any member of the LGBTQ+ community can tell you this. Parents don't have the right to subject their children to other abuses that could cause them to take their own life or be hurt, and this should be no different. Allowing conversion therapy will kill people. Allowing parents to send their children to conversion therapy without their consent will kill children. This is a matter of life and death and it should be treated that way. Children are their own people- not the property of their parents- and deserve the full rights that that entails.

Please do not allow this practice to continue. Please. Do it for the kids that that weren't lucky like me.