The practice of attempting to permanently “cure,” or eradicate, same-gender attraction and/or gender variance, often through coercive methods. Historically, queer identities have been referred to as “unnatural” or a “disorder.” As a result, people who do not as heterosexual and/or cisgender are oftentimes instated into conversion therapy to “cure” people of their “illness.” This abusive “therapeutic method” causes a lot of psychological distress among the TLGBQ+ community. In recent years, conversion therapy has been regarded as a pseudoscience with no psychological benefits. Furthermore, conversion therapy has been recognized to have long-term psychological and social trauma. Therefore, there has been a push to ban conversion therapy in some parts of North America.