About Me
Ens’ current research examines Canadian and American patients’ and survivors’ lived experiences of the harmful practice of conversion therapy from 1910 to 2000. It additionally analyzes how practitioners understood and responded to their patients’ lived experiences, emotions, and physical reactions to conversion therapy practices within the confines of their own anti-2SLGBTQ+ biases. Historical medical and scientific texts, newspapers, magazines, oral histories, and patient records reveal that North American conversion therapies have blended medical and cultural narratives and imperatives since the 1910s, with devastating, long-term consequences for patients and survivors.