Argumentative Essay: It's Time To Stop Conversion Therapy

Conversion therapy is a barbaric and inhumane treatment, especially for our youth who are so impressionable. Imagining a young and innocent teenaged child or any young person being repressed for their thoughts is intolerable. Concealing a young mind’s thoughts will inevitably lead to worsened mental conditions, depression, lack of esteem, as well as many other unthinkable cruelties.

Although our modern society in America is now less tolerant of these ‘therapists’ and supporters of this ‘therapy,’ it is needless to say that it is impossible to eradicate a practice that can be justified as freedom of religion. For this reason, I have engendered a complete solution to not only stopping conversion therapy, but also reversing the illusion that conversion therapy is either just or in some god’s wish. The ultimate solution to this issue is taking a taste of one’s own medicine. Through similar techniques used by themselves, therapists and supporters will undergo therapy for hetero to homosexual conversion, thereby solving the problem altogether.

This new type of therapy, I would like to call reversion therapy

Some other, less favorable or even possible solutions entail: passing bills that ban conversion therapy on a federal level, protecting the rights of non-heterosexual people (especially those of minors who are most vulnerable to such practices), persecuting those who commit conversion therapy or force others to be converted, discrediting and banning churches/religions that promote conversion therapy, spreading support for non homosexual groups, criminalize those who attempt to hurt or express hate speech towards homosexual groups, encouraging students to be more vocal about abuse they may experience at home, and clearly spreading information to inform our country that this therapy still exists and is a