US President Barack Obama has condemned psychiatric therapies designed to "repair" gay, lesbian and transgender youth.

Mr Obama's statement was in response to an online petition calling for a ban on conversion therapies. It gained over 120,000 signatures in three months.

The petition (closed) can be found here –> https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/enact-leelahs-law-ban-all-lgbtq-conversion-therapy

and one of the many articles on this is here -> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-32227353

and here –> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/us/politics/obama-to-call-for-end-to-conversion-therapies-for-gay-and-transgender-youth.html?_r=0