"Conversion" therapy is not what the gay community says it is when practiced by ethical therapists. Children's sexual identity is very fluid in childhood and early teens. Because this is true, children and their parents deserve the chance to receive counseling that will enable them to be comfortable with their biological sex. Conversion therapy is not used to teach children that being gay is bad, but that they should wait to make sexual decisions until until this period of fluidity has passed and  that there are many negative social and sometimes medical problems for those who choose to identify themselves as lesbian gay queer transsexual etc. and live that lifestyle. I love my cousin dearly, but she has indeed had some of these problems.

Children and even adults make decisions that they regret later in life. In the 70's I met a woman who transitioned to manhood that person was one of the first i Virginia to do so, and he told me that he wished that he had never done so. For privacy concerns I will not reveal the Gynecologist doctor,s name in whose office I met him nor his name.

The bottom line is that parents deserve to be supported in selecting counseling done by a licensed counselor whom they deem appropriate for their children