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‘Gay therapy’ victim at 4 years old describes trauma
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/04/13/gay-therapy-victim-at-4-years-old-describes-trauma/A gay man who experienced conversion therapy as a young child has spoken out about the trauma and shame it induced to this day.
In an interview with ABC News Mordechai Levovitz explained how he was forced to undergo conversion therapy by his deeply religious parents at 6 years old.
It was at just 4 years old when his parents first took him to see a conversion therapist. They were concerned he was too feminine, as he liked pink and everything girls liked to do. The therapist encouraged Levovitz to attend football and baseball games, but he lacked interest.
Levovitz is an orthodox Jew who now works for an organisation in New York called Jewish Queer Youth. Many of the young people he works to help have experienced ‘gay therapy’. He called the entire concept “quackery” and explained how, “every week there are kids who come to my organization traumatized and broken because their families sent them to therapists to try to change them and make them straight.”
In an interview with ABC News Mordechai Levovitz explained how he was forced to undergo conversion therapy by his deeply religious parents at 6 years old.
It was at just 4 years old when his parents first took him to see a conversion therapist. They were concerned he was too feminine, as he liked pink and everything girls liked to do. The therapist encouraged Levovitz to attend football and baseball games, but he lacked interest.
Levovitz is an orthodox Jew who now works for an organisation in New York called Jewish Queer Youth. Many of the young people he works to help have experienced ‘gay therapy’. He called the entire concept “quackery” and explained how, “every week there are kids who come to my organization traumatized and broken because their families sent them to therapists to try to change them and make them straight.”
Who on Earth assigns a sexual orientation to a 4-year-old?!
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In this guy's case, the parents recognized that he wasn't what they wanted him to be, so they tried to "straighten him." Obviously, it didn't work. 
You have to remember that all parents can be stupid, but fundamentalists can take it to another level. Besides, we've all learned a lot in the last couple of decades, wouldn't you say?
