Conversion Therapy in USA – level 1

05-06-2019 07:00

Most people are heterosexual. This means that women like men or men like women. Some people are homosexual. A homosexual man likes men. A homosexual woman likes women.

Some people do conversion therapy. Conversion therapy tries to change homosexual people into heterosexual people.

Conversion therapy is legal in most American states. Colorado bans the therapy. People cannot do conversion therapy on minors in Colorado. Colorado becomes the 18th state to ban conversion therapy.

Difficult words: legal (people can do legal things), ban (make something illegal – people must not do it), minor (a person younger than 18).

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