Conversion therapy, which Appio Hunter experienced in a Mormon church setting, was ultimately ineffective and extremely damaging to his mental health.

“And I say that in quotes because we all know now, not only was it not effective, but it was extremely damaging to those who participated.”

The term conversion therapy is an incoherent label that is often used to falsely describe legitimate counseling practices aimed at helping patients accept their own biological reality.

“what they call gender affirmation is actually conversion therapy and what they call conversion therapy is actually gender affirmation they have completely inverted the meaning of the word conversion so that trying to change someone is affirmation and trying to help them accept themselves for who the”

Conversion therapy is a form of child abuse that should be banned.

“This is a it's not a therapy. It's child abuse. >> It is uh it is child abuse abuse in the in the form of uh of of therapy.”

Matthew Cox claims that conversion therapy is fundamentally flawed because it is based on the idea that homosexuality is a pathology that can be cured.

“but at the root of it the idea which was really dominant at the time up until the 70s when the APA removed homosexuality from its list of psychological disorders is the idea that homosexuality is a psychological disorder right is the idea that it's a pathology it's a disease something that you can t”