“Transgender people know who they are. We don’t need to be told and coached how to be someone else,” says Jay Davis in a video released by the White House today.
In response to an online petition, President Obama called for an end to conversion therapies for minors on Wednesday.
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The petition was created in honor of transgender teen Leelah Alcorn, who committed suicide after religious therapists tried to convert her.