Taking away someone's body autonomy should never happen. The psychological torture caused by a "therapist" abusing their agency in a conversion therapy situation to strip a "patient's" very sense of self from them should never happen. Ban conversion therapy.

And just as a reminder, the American Medical Association [1], the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry [2], and the American Osteopathic Association [3] have all issued statements against conversion therapy.   The American Psychiatric Association reaffirmed their guidelines that ethical practitioners refrain from attempts to change individuals' sexual orientation, and encourages legislation that would prohibit the practice of "reparative" or conversion therapies [4].  "..efforts to do so represent a significant risk of harm by subjecting individuals to forms of treatment which have not been scientifically validated and by undermining self-esteem when sexual orientation fails to change." [5]


[1] - https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/population-care/advocating-lgbtq-community
[2] - https://www.aacap.org/AACAP/Policy_Statements/2018/Conversion_Therapy.aspx
[3] - https://thedo.osteopathic.org/2017/08/resolution-lgbtq-conversion-therapy-passes/
[4] - https://www.psychiatry.org/File%20Library/About-APA/Organization-Documents-Policies/Policies/Position-Conversion-Therapy.pdf
[5] -https://www.psychiatry.org/newsroom/news-releases/apa-reiterates-strong-opposition-to-conversion-therapy