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Leelah alcorn a transgender teen who committed suicide in december. she said i never got the therapy i needed to cure me of my depression. i got more christians telling me i was selfish and wrong and that i should look to god for help. joining me now is matthew, a spokesperson for nclr and a survivor of gay conversion therapy. thank you for joining me matthew. >> thank you. >> tell me about the gay conversion therapy that you underwent. >> so i'm 26 years old now. i was 16 years old when i came out to my father. he was really supportive and had his own worries and concerns of what it meant to ...

To talk therapy. mine was talk therapy 101, group and a conversion camp in virginia. yes, my therapy was in four states and five years from ages 16 to 21. >> wow. >> and even though it was talk. i had to do certain things. so the belief is that the first steps in curing homosexuality is spend as much time as possible with men, spending at least time away from women. this is to make sure you don't pick up any feminine behaviors, keep women as the mysterious opposite sex while having healthy male bonding. so you can fix or heal your masculinity, that there was a trauma that happened as a chide. ...

That can be cured. especially because i was so young and inexperienced sexually, this was the opportunity to do it now. and my father thought, you know trusting his advice and this is really just something in my head, it was worth a shot. and my fears as a 16-year-old that i wanted my father's approval. and the fact that there was a university professor saying listen, you don't have to come out. there's other options. and that also meant, i don't have to come out to my peers in high school. that's something i never wanted to face which is my own self. >> so you were a willing participant in th...

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