These dangerous and discredited practices are based on the false claim that being lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ) is a mental illness that needs to be cured—a view with no scientific basis.

Conversion "therapy" is made up of harmful practices use rejection, shame, and psychological abuse to force young people to try and change who they are.  This so-called "therapy" amounts to abuse. 

Please, ban this practice to protect our vulnerable youth.

-Jane Cornelius
PFLAG Blue Ridge
Charlottesville, VA