Cornell University recently released a meta-analysis of 47 papers involving conversion therapy, gauging its effectiveness and potential danger. Of them, 34 stayed neutral, while 12 found that conversion therapy was ineffective and linked to increased depression, suicidality, increased social isolation, and difficulty forming intimate bonds. Only one study claimed that it was effective, and that study was done with all highly religious participants and even says that its findings, quote, cannot be generalized beyond the present sample.

So he decided he had to set out to figure out how to not be gay.

But the father of the stuff, the most respectable stuff with the highest success rate, the guy's name was Joseph Niccolosi. And you can't find most of his books on Amazon.

All it does is prohibit licensed medical practitioners and mental health professionals from engaging in it, and it prohibits payment for conversion therapy to be covered by medical assistance programs. It's not illegal to subject your kids to this kind of treatment, but Minnesota regulates medical licensing, and the state senate is of the opinion that it's not professionally appropriate for doctors to do that shit.