‘I really was broken’: survivor welcomes Dominic Perrottet agreeing to ban gay conversion practices

Chris Csabs tried a variety of gay conversion practices, starting when he was 16. He has struggled to heal from the damage they caused Photograph: supplied by Chris Csabs

Growing up as a teenager in the suburbs of Sydney, Chris Csabs was led to believe he needed to be “fixed”.

“I was gay and had grown up steeped in an ideology that told me that God had not made me that way. That there was a negative cause to my homosexuality,” he said.