?Conversion Therapy, also known as ?reparative therapy?, ?ex-gay therapy,? or ?sexual orientation change efforts? (SOCE), professes to help lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people to change or overcome their sexual orientation or gender identity. The majority of those who practice this ?therapy? often do so with little or no formal psychological training, operating instead from a strict religious perspective, believing homosexuality to be a ?sin.?
Nine former leaders of ?ex-gay? ministries today publish a joint letter denouncing the dangerous practices of conversion therapy and lending their support to the National Center for Lesbian Rights? #BornPerfect campaign to end conversion therapy in five years.
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