conversion practices

Conversion practices, also called conversion therapy or reparative therapy, are a wide-ranging set of medical and psychological procedures aimed at changing a person’s gender identity to that traditionally associated with their sex assigned at birth or converting their sexual orientation to heterosexuality. Conversion practitioners commonly believe that sexual orientations or gender identities that are not heterosexual or cisgender, respectively, are unnatural and symptomatic of mental disorders that can and should be treated. Religious practitioners may also regard...