I am a 62 year old transgender woman and I am also a parent and grandparent. Conversion therapy or rather brainwashing of a child is a disaster and a violation of that childs rights to be who or what they desire to be in life. I know exactly the anguish misguided conversion therapy causes to the child in life. My mother and father did this to me. I ended up an alcoholic and engaged in very risky endeavors where I could and should have died. I hated myself as how I felt and knew who and what I was in direct conflict with what religous figures and my parents drilled into my head. 

 Who are we to force our will on another human being without asking them and lustening to them. These conversion advocates are completley disregarding the fundemental right to ones own body and mind sovereignty. The person being brainwashed is forcebly taken into these programs with no regard for thier rights. The term "Parent's Rights " are tossed around and never once do they mention the individuals rights just the parents. This conversion is child abuse that is psychological in nature. It forces  the child to develop low self esteem for even thinking they may be gay, lesbian, bisexual or God forbid Transgender like me. Parent's job is to guide the child to be the best person they can be regardless of the child being GLBT. Doe's it matter in the long run that the child is GLBT? Who exactly is a GLBT child threatening so much that people feel compelled to try and destroy that childs identity and self worth in the name of a complying to a religious based conversion program. If you truly believe in the Cristian faith and our own constitution you would uphold the right to the childs free will that God gave us all and you would know this conversion scheme violates the very constitution that has as a core principle the right to pursue happiness.