Co-Sponsor the Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act

Conversion therapy is sold as a cure that does not exist.

A letter to your members of Congress. Facts checked September 25, 2026.

The explainer behind this letter Conversion Therapy Efforts to change sexual orientation or gender identity, and the bans

The Letter

Subject Co-Sponsor the Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act

Conversion therapy is sold to frightened parents as a cure for their child. It is not one. Every major medical association that has taken a position rejects it, no credible study shows it changes anyone, and the only two studies that ever claimed it worked were both retracted.

LGBTQ young people put through conversion therapy are more than twice as likely to attempt suicide. An estimated 698,000 LGBTQ adults have already been through it, many as teenagers.

I am asking you to co-sponsor the Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act (H.R. 3243). It would make it unlawful to sell conversion therapy or to advertise that it can change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity, and it would let the Federal Trade Commission enforce that the way it enforces other deceptive practices.

No parent should be sold a fake cure for their own child. Please co-sponsor H.R. 3243.

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I'm calling to ask the Representative to co-sponsor the Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act, H.R. 3243.
Conversion therapy is sold as a cure, but it does not work. Every major medical group rejects it, and the only two studies that ever claimed it worked were both retracted.
LGBTQ kids put through it are more than twice as likely to attempt suicide.
The bill makes it unlawful to sell conversion therapy or to advertise that it can change someone, and lets the FTC enforce that as a deceptive practice.
It has 197 cosponsors and no vote yet. Please add the Representative's name.

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The Facts Behind the Ask

0 credible studies showing conversion therapy works. The only two that claimed it did were retracted (source)
2.2x higher suicide attempt risk for LGBTQ youth subjected to it (source)
698,000 LGBTQ adults have been through conversion therapy, many as teenagers (source)

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