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Nearly 700,000 Americans have undergone conversion therapy, half when under 18, according to the UCLA’s Williams Institute, which can range from counselling and ‘praying away the gay’ to electric shocks. states after Virginia banned it in March. The TikTokers have been overwhelmed by the response from hundreds of other survivors and young people who fear they will be forced to undergo the secretive practice, which is illegal for minors in 20 U.S. “A lot of people were messaging me, and it was this form of love and support and family that I’ve never experienced before.”ĭorn is one of a growing number of Americans sharing their experiences of conversion therapy on TikTok, amid mounting efforts to outlaw the discredited practice, with Canada, Britain, Israel and Mexico among those mulling bans. “I was going through a pretty dark time being at home all the time and I knew that I needed to talk about it,” said the 30-year-old sign language interpreter, whose videos have been viewed 1 million times, with thousands of supportive comments. LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Mike Dorn told his parents he was gay, aged 15, they tried to make him straight by sending him to a Christian camp in California for three months, where he was told he would go to hell, forced to dig holes and shoved if he disobeyed orders.ĭorn’s trauma came to the surface when he was confined to his home for weeks during a COVID-19 lockdown in the United States in June and he decided to share his story on TikTok.