No child should ever be hurt because of who they are. That’s why we started the #BornPerfect campaign to end conversion therapy across the country over the next five years.
We need your financial support to make it happen.
All attempts to change their sexual orientation or gender identity through conversion therapy damage LGBTQ youth, causing depression, substance abuse, and even suicide. Conversion therapy has been condemned by every major medical and mental health organization in the country. But unethical therapists still continue to subject LGBTQ youth to this abusive practice.
- Testifying to urge the United Nations Committee Against Torture to take steps to end conversion therapy in the U.S.
- Working with legislators and leaders in more than a dozen states to draft and pass laws to protect LGBTQ youth, similar to California and New Jersey where we helped draft, pass, and defend laws banning conversion therapy.
- Fighting in courtrooms to defend conversion therapy bans.
- Representing LGBTQ survivors abused by religious authorities, including recently a young man in Mississippi who suffered horrific abuse in a religious school.
We believe that every LGBTQ child is born perfect and that any young person’s identity as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender should be honored, celebrated, and supported. We are committed to a future where youth are free from this abusive practice, but we cannot realize that vision without you.
Onward,
Kate Kendell, Esq.
NCLR Executive Director
