In an opinion piece in the New York Times (1/24, Subscription Publication) called “I Was Tortured In Gay Conversion Therapy. And It’s Still Legal In 41 States,” Sam Brinton, “the head of advocacy and government affairs at the Trevor Project, which provides crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBTQ youth,” writes about his own personal experiences as a child undergoing “hurtful” conversion therapy.
Brinton observes, “Every prominent professional health association…opposes the use of conversion therapy on youth, calling it harmful and ineffective.” Brinton, who says he is “proudly bisexual and gender fluid,” calls for the passage of “legislation to stop licensed therapists who seek to harm LGBTQ youth with conversion therapy.”
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— “I Was Tortured in Gay Conversion Therapy. And It’s Still Legal in 41 States,” Sam Brinton, New York Times, January 24, 2018.