As a survivor of two-and-a-half years of parent-initiated conversion “therapy” at the hands of an LDS Family Services therapist in the mid-2000s, please acknowledge my righteous anger at the LDS Church’s last-minute attempt to sabotage Utah’s long-awaited regulation barring licensed psychotherapists from employing torturous efforts to alter the God-given sexual orientation and gender identity of God’s precious LGBTQ children.
Please join me in proclaiming that no one — not parents, not therapists, not high-level church leaders — has a “right” to subject children to this abusive, abhorrent and decidedly ungodly practice that destroys children’s self-worth to satisfy the selfish desires of weak-minded adults and cowardly religious systems.