Conversion therapy is fundamentally flawed because it instills the patient with a sense of inadequacy and inferiority in association with their sexual orientation and gender identity.  Being a teenager is a time of confusion, uncertainty, and doubt.  This sense of vulnerability is even more present for LGBTQ youth, who during this complicated and tumultuous time period, are come to terms with themselves in a world which ultimately accepts heterosexuality as the norm, and anything else as abnormal.