The damaging and dangerous practice called "conversion
therapy" might soon be at an end in California --- the most populous state
in the U.S. -- if Governor Jerry Brown signs a bill that the state Legislature
has already passed. So-called conversion therapy is based upon the dangerous
and disapproving theory that homosexuality is a form of mental illness and that
through therapy, sexual orientation can be changed.
Thousands of gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth have been subjected
to the humiliating measures of this practice over the past 100 years, including electric shocks
and nausea-inducing medication paired
with homosexual imagery. In many other cases, youth have been forced to undergo
shame-filled therapy sessions with counselors and groups of their peers.
Tell California Gov. Jerry Brown: Sign the bill to ban conversion therapy of minors and affirm the finding of the legislature that being gay or lesbian is not a disease or disorder.
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