"The 12-minute film, Sue's Story, premieres Tuesday as part of PFLAG's I Changed My Mind series and follows a conservative evangelical mother who once believed she could "fix" her child's gender identity through faith and therapy. The episode, produced in partnership with filmmaker Brooke Sebold, instead chronicles a different kind of conversion: a parent's moral awakening through love, information, and loss."
"A self-described "lifelong Republican," she recounts homeschooling her three children for two decades to "protect them from indoctrination." Her youngest, Stix, came out as gay at 10 and later as transgender. The turning point came when Sue's middle daughter told her she would either have to change or lose her child. "We were hopeful that the conversion therapy she did would change her," Sue says. "Instead, it left her with anxiety and depression.""
Sue's Story is a 12-minute film that follows a conservative evangelical mother who once sought to change her child's gender identity through faith and therapy. The film chronicles the mother's moral awakening as she confronts the harms conversion efforts caused, including her child's anxiety and depression. The story recounts homeschooling, political identity, and a family's difficult turning points when a daughter demanded acceptance over change. Major medical associations deem conversion therapy dangerous and ineffective, while reports show minors continue to experience such practices despite state bans and ongoing legal challenges in the Supreme Court.
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