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Robert Kirby: My own bouts with ‘conversion therapy’

We were all set to pass a legislative bill that would have prevented therapists from engaging in attempts to realign gender attraction, essentially through actions that experts labeled as “bat-spit crazy.” But far-right advocates objected.

A move to end the practice among minors through professional licensing rules ran into opposition this past week when The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints protested, saying that the proposed ban went too far.

In a quote I entirely invented, a church spokesman said, “There is only one appropriate form of sexual attraction.