The harmful practice of so-called Sexual Orientation Conversion Therapy needs to be banned in our commonwealth. The whole thing has been discredited on numerous occasions and it results in many harmful and sometimes dangerous experiences for those who are subjected to it. The General Assembly must act to ban this discredited practice and penalize those medical or mental health professionals who might seek to continue harming their patients with this hateful practice; which is in my opinion, the very definition of malpractice.