SAN FRANCISCO — The testimony is powerful.

Forced by his parents to undergo therapy to "fix" his homosexuality, Ryan Kendall ran away from home and legally separated from his family. "At the age of 16, I had lost everything," Kendall told the California Legislature last year. "My family and my faith had rejected me, and the damaging messages of conversion therapy, coupled with this rejection, drove me to the brink of suicide."

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