Conversion Therapy

What is conversion therapy?

• Conversion therapy or reparative therapy refers to a range of practices that are falsely supposed to change an individual’s gender identity/ sexual orientation/ gender expression.
• These practices are used to target the youth of the LGBTQ+ community i.e. lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, etc.  
• This therapy can include psychiatric treatment, psychosomatic drugs, electroshock therapy or even violence and exorcism.
• According to American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, such therapies are based on the false premise that gender diverse identities and homosexuality are pathological.
• These practices are dangerous and discredited. It could lead to adverse effects like anxiety, trauma, drug abuse, depression or even suicide.