Ex-gay

Tom claims to be an ex-gay.

The "drop the T" movement was started by a guy who now identifies as ex-gay.

People who are politically ex-gay or ex-trans are almost always recent far-right Christian converts.

Ex-gay ministries began as redoubts for men and women trying to reconcile their faith and sexuality.

Instead of fire-and-brimstone denunciations from the pulpit, the ex-gay movement allowed the Christian right to couch its condemnation of homosexuality in a way that seemed compassionate.

For two decades, McKrae Game was a top-tier figure among ex-gay Christians and a leading advocate for conversion therapy, a counseling practice with the goal of helping LGBTQ people suppress their homosexuality and become "straight."