This report contains offensive and potentially triggering language, specifically in reference to anti-LGBTQ+ practices related to “conversion therapy,” which have in common the belief that a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity can and should be changed. These efforts are widely discredited by medical professionals in multiple countries and by international medical associations. These practices are inherently degrading and discriminatory and rooted in the belief that LGBTQ+ persons are somehow inferior, or sinful, and that they must at any cost modify their orientation or identity to remedy that supposed inferiority. These practices are employed by or promoted by organizations and individuals covered in this report. The authors chose to include offensive quotes in the report to illustrate the dangers of conversion therapy and to show why these groups and individuals should not be publicized or platformed by technology companies.
