Not, perhaps, the most exact and clear-cut of all the sciences. But it is nevertheless a science, and its practice and practitioners must be regulated through that lens.
Conversion therapy, a sweet name for a form of emotional abuse that has damaged — and, in some cases, ended — the lives of some of our most vulnerable young people, is not science.
Across the nation, people who study and supervise the practice of psychiatry and psychology have determined that any effort to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of a person is generally fruitless and often damaging.