The Pros And Cons Of Gay Conversion Therapy

There’s a small portion of society that grow up being Gay; they get treated differently, a new definition of what people don’t see as “normal”. In today’s world, there’s parents and friends that think that being gay is a sin. In a matter of fact, it is a sin according to religion (baptist, catholic, [etc..]). Some parents think that gay conversion therapy could help “cure” the sexuality of their child but will it? By showing a personal story, Sam Brinton wrote, “I Was Tortured in Gay Conversion Therapy. And It’s Still Legal in 41 States”. He tries to convince his audience that this therapy should end, therefore he wants people to feel the pain he went through, trust him when he talks about his experience, and believe that it’s unnecessary.
The state of Nevada, New Mexico, Connecticut, and New York were some places that banned this type of therapy. Sam Brinton’s parents forced him to go to conversation therapy, when he was just a middle schooler in Florida. His parents were Southern Baptist missionaries that thought that being gay or bisexual was a disgrace. There’s more people like Sam that go through the same situation. Sam’s persuasion is by using logos, pathos, and ethos to successfully convince states to ban the gay conversion therapy among the U.S. Therefore, he explains to his readers that the pain he had to go through, was more than just wrong but damaging. His experience in the conversation therapy was not helping him; he went to the point where he had to fake that it made a change. When people go to therapy in general, there’s so many emotions running through the room. Well, Sam felt lonely and heartbroken; there was an enormous amount of pain going through his mind. For this specific reason, he believes that this type of therapy should discontinue. Believe that it’s unnecessary, that people shouldn’t punish those that are gay, just because they act too
Believing that it’s full of horrors that children need to face without expecting what is coming their way; Sam Believes it’s “heartbreaking that the study estimates that 20,000 L.G.B.T.Q. teens will receive conversion therapy from a healthcare professional before they turn 18. An even larger number of youth, an estimated 57,000 teenagers, will receive the treatment from a religious or spiritual adviser before adulthood”(par 8). No matter how harmful the session may be, this therapy won’t change all Gay people by how they act or feel. Sam stopped going to therapy but it didn’t change him. He did tell his counselor and parents that it worked, but that’s just because he didn’t want to keep getting hurt. He says that he sees himself as a survivor of conversation therapy, and he knows there’s people like him that have gone through the same situation. In a matter of fact there’s a boy from, “A Survivor Of Gay Conversion Therapy Shares His Chilling Story”, that experience the same. In year 2015, a 15 year old boy was forced by his parents to attend conversations therapy. His name was TC and he went through the same experience as how Sam had to go through. Saying “Their goal was to get us to hate ourselves for being LGBTQ, and they knew what they were doing..The second step of the program, they “rebuilt us in their image.” They removed us of everything that made us a unique person,