Some conservative groups have said banning the therapy would restrict a parent's right to care for children going through gender confusion.

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Baker, the head of the Orgone Institute Diagnostic Clinic (and, later, the founder of the American College of Orgonomy), was a lifelong conservative who started insisting that his left-leaning patients undergo a political conversion as part of their therapy.

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