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Conversion therapy is harmful.

People who are questioning their sexual identity need a therapist who can help them explore their feelings, their family‑of‑origin patterns, and the experiences that shaped them. What they do not need is someone trying to force a predetermined outcome or impose a belief system on them. Too often parents, convinced they know best, seek out people who will reinforce their fears. The result is that the child learns to internalize self‑rejection — and that path too often leads to despair and suicidal impulses.

I learned this early in ministry and college teaching.

One of my students, raised in a strict Calvinist home that believed in double predestination, was absolutely convinced he was damned because he was gay. He had known it for years, but refused to act on it; he was celibate. He was bright, sensitive, and hard‑working, and I was certain he was not damned. But he dropped out of school, and I never learned what became of him.

Another young man married a woman, and after the birth of their first child, he took his own life. I cannot say with certainty what drove him to that point, but I have always suspected that conflict around his sexual identity played a role.

And I once knew a woman in her thirties who believed she was a man trapped in a woman’s body. She dressed in jeans, plaid shirt, and work boots. She was kind, thoughtful, and deeply good. But she kept getting into serious motorcycle accidents — which I feared were subconscious attempts to harm herself. A few years after we lost touch, I read that she had been killed in yet another accident.
These stories stay with me.

They remind me that when people are wrestling with identity, the last thing they need is coercion or shame. They need safety, honesty, and someone who will walk with them and help them sort things out — not someone who insists they already know the answer. Everyone does.

They also echo something from my own family. My mother, shaped by the fundamentalism of her generation, once told me she feared that counseling GLBT people might “turn” me. Her Baptist pastor — who wanted to be a small‑town Pat Robertson — reinforced that fear. I told him off and put my mother in her place for lacking compassion. She wasn’t malicious — she was terrified. That’s what rigid belief systems do: they create fear, and fear creates harm.

When people are wrestling with identity, the last thing they need is coercion or shame. They need safety, honesty, and someone who will walk with them and help them sort things out — not someone who insists they already know the answer. Everyone does.
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Supreme Court Rules Against Law Banning Conversion Therapy For Minors The justices ruled 8-1, with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson as the lone dissenter.