1 / I read @IlhanMN tweet and, in my role of the #BaffledImmigrant, I stopped and asked: "wait: is this even legal? Here in the USA? Because in the "shithole" country where I come from, Brazil, you will lose your license and my be arrested if you do that". So I did some googling.
2/ Apparently, this has been a concern for the mental health community for a while. Take a look at this 2016 issue of the Journal of Medical Regulation:
jmr.fsmb.org/wp-content/upl…
3/ In 2011, this repulsive Republican presidential (then) hopeful from Minnesota, Rep. Michele Bachmann, was busted because the couple owned a conversion clinic.

thinkprogress.org/the-high-costs…
4/ And in 2016, governor @NYGovCuomo made it impossible for insurance companies to cover this abhorrent practice.

insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/breaki…
5/ In my role as #BaffledImmigrant, I remain baffled: how can this be legal? In this country? Here are the countries where it is illegal (it's torture). Important information: for the @WHO, homosexuality is not a disorder.
indiatoday.in/education-toda…
6/ Baffled, I find out that in the USA, MOST States accept conversion therapy.
lgbtmap.org/equality-maps/…
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