Conversion "therapy" is cruel, discredited, and dangerous for children! Trying to turn children into something they are not is beyond horrible.  Children become aware of their natural sexual orientation and gender way before they express it to another person.  So when they tell someone who they are inside, it should help them feel better about themselves because their inner being starts to align with the outward appearances imposed initially by default from parents and others who love them.  You can't "put the toothpaste back in the tube".  Conversion "therapy" is an attempt to do this.  Once a person uncovers their true self they need support, love, and understanding to develop into a strong and healthy individual, not cruel programming that attempts to force them into some sort of mold.  There are cases of a director who ran a discredited conversion center finally accepting their own "gayness" after the center closed down.  It is terribly unhealthy to use rejection, coersion, shame, and imposed denial to keep anyone from becoming themselves, and it is ultimately unsuccessful - and quite often spectacularly unsuccessful when the person realizes how lost, shamed and confused this conversion "therapy" as forced upon them and they seek the only form of escape that makes sense - suicide.  Let's not kill the kids, ok?

If an adult wants to attempt a "conversion" from their true nature, so be it - denial can be helpful for adults under certain, repressed conditions of deep denial.  But, we talk all the time about protecting children from abuse and conversion "therapy" is simply another way to abuse children who don't fit into a predefined parental mold.  Let's stop that from happening!  Save the children - let them be free to become themselves!!