My name is Michael, I am a 16-year-old LGBT rights activist and GSA president.

Recently, the talk of conversion therapy (putting LGBT people in camps where they are forced to become straight, many times with the use of shock therapy) has become large due to Vice President, Mike Pence's claim to support Gay Conversion Therapy on teens in the US. Doing some research of my own, I discovered that only about TWO countries in the entire world have completely banned the use of Conversion Therapy (which did not include the US).

I'm making it my mission to help ban the practice of Conversion Therapy in the US and possibly help those in other countries who are suffering because of it.

Please help us put an end to this inhumane practice!!