More than 20,000 LGBT teenagers in US risk subjection to ‘gay conversion therapy’

Thousands of young American LGBT people will undergo conversion therapy from a licensed healthcare professional before they turn 18, a study has found. An estimated 20,000 Teenagers aged 13 to 17 will go through an attempt to change their sexual orientation according to researchers at the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law. It has been widely discredited by health experts for risking causing emotional and psychological damage.

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