So-called conversion therapy causes serious emotional harm to LGBTQ people and can even be deadly, but it also comes with a high financial cost to individuals and to society as a whole, according to a new study.
The study, published Monday in the medical journal JAMA Pediatrics, analyzed 28 earlier studies about conversion therapy, which attempts to convert people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning into straight or cisgender people. Attacks on trans people are also attacks on science itselfThe practice, also known as reparative or sexual orientation change efforts, has been discredited by every major professional association that deals with mental health.
'I am deeply gay': Kate McKinnon mocks Florida's controversial bill 02:07The past five years have brought several bans on the practice, but there have been a handful of pro-conversion therapy bills introduced, many of them focused on trans kids, said Alex Petrovnia, founder of the Trans Formation Project, a project of Step Up for Trans Kids that tracks anti-trans legislation. Petrovnia said there are two bills that explicitly would allow the practice in Tennessee.
"I think often parents, they're not trying to hurt their kids, or they think they're trying to help them," said Cahill, who was not involved in the research."I think it's really important for parents to know that if they have their child do conversion therapy, their child has a greater odds of experiencing serious psychological distress, depression, substance use and suicide. I would think that a lot of parents would not be happy to learn that.
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