Ban on conversion 'therapy' to be reconsidered by Supreme Court. Here's what the discredited practice that tries to change LGBTQ youth is like

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Curtis Lopez-Galloway was 16 when he told his parents he was gay. And while he didn’t exactly expect them to throw him coming-out a party, their reaction left him stunned: They took him to so-called conversion "therapy"—driving him to a Kentucky therapist, two hours away, who used the sessions to berate him for being gay and for not trying hard enough to change into “the man that God wanted” him to be.

Further, the therapist confirmed to his parents all of their worst fears, telling them, “‘He’s never going to be happy. He’s going to be abused and get AIDS. He’s going to die,’” Lopez-Galloway, now 30, tells Fortune.