On Saturday night, a new movie debuts on Lifetime about how conversion therapy was practiced only a few years ago at an unlicensed facility in southern Utah. “Trapped: The Alex Cooper Story” was inspired by Cooper’s gripping memoir, “Saving Alex,” which chronicled the torture and abuse she suffered by those seeking to change her sexual orientation.
This harrowing yet ultimately redeeming film arrives as the state of Utah is poised to finally and hopefully forever ban the practice of conversion therapy by licensed professionals.
Earlier this year, the Legislature failed to pass a bill that had been drafted in keeping with the “Utah Way” by key groups, including Equality Utah and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.