In 1973 (46 years ago) the American Psychiatric Association made a resolution to state clearly that homosexuality is not a mental illness.  My 30 years of experience treating psychiatric patients supports this experience.  I have seen no evidence that people who are homosexual are distressed due to the homosexuality itself but only by the uninformed prejudice they suffer from others.  I have seen many patients that were harmed by parents not accepting their homosexuality which is a core part of who they are.  I have never seen someone who underwent successful conversion therapy and was happier for it.   I would ask people to imagine if they were adopted at a young age by homosexual parents and they were heterosexual and their parents sent them to someone to change them to be homosexual how that would feel.    But this hypothetical has never happened in my experience.  Government has had to protect the rights of minors over their parents rights many times before - good example being that adult Jehovahs Witness believers right to refuse blood transfusion based on their religious beliefs did not transfer to refusing blood for the children.  We don't allow parents to abuse their children just because they are their parents and conversion therapy in my professional opinion should be considered a form of abuse.