The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 7 is debating whether a Colorado ban on "conversion therapy" for gay and transgender minors violates a therapist's free speech, in other words, a fairly new ground for the justices.

Hollywood celebrities have long been outspoken about conversion therapy, a controversial approach that has triggered widespread backlash.

From Bowen Yang to Miley Cyrus and a "Mean Girls" funnyman, here's a look at some of the big names who have been open about their own experiences with conversion therapy.

Miley Cyrus stopped going to church over conversion therapy concerns

In 2020, actress and pop superstar Miley Cyrus said she stopped going to her church after her gay friends were sent to conversion therapy.

"I had some gay friends in school," Cyrus told beauty mogul Hailey Bieber, according to The Independent and NBC News. "The reason why I left my church is that they weren’t being accepted. They were being sent to conversion therapies."

'SNL' star Bowen Yang was sent to conversion therapy as teen

Another person who has been vocal on the topic for years is "Saturday Night Live" breakout star and "Wicked" franchise actor Bowen Yang. He told People in 2021 that he was sent to gay conversion therapy by his parents when he was a teenager.

"There was a huge chasm of misunderstanding," Yang told the outlet. "Neither side really understood where the other was coming from, and it led to very dangerous situations overall."

But he said that "what was always constant was the intention of love from both sides." Yang added: "It pushed me into questioning what it meant, what was protected and what I should be protective about in terms of being a queer person, I don't take it for granted."

'Mean Girls' star Daniel Franzese was 'brainwashed' in conversion therapy

A year after Yang' made these remarks, beloved "Mean Girls" star Daniel Franzese – who plays Janet Ian's gay best friend Damian Leigh in the 2004 comedy film – told Page Six in 2022 that he was "brainwashed" into an estrangement with his mother during conversion therapy when he was 21. He publicly came out in 2014.

Franzese, now 47, told the gossip site that he forced himself into the controversial practice, which had a goal to "convert" him from being homosexual to heterosexual because he "didn't want to be gay" and "didn't know what to do."

He told Page Six that he was "lovingly tolerated" by his Catholic and Pentecostal Christian family, but society made him "feel like being gay was not OK.""I went to one-on-one therapy sessions with a person who was trying to change me straight and make me pray the gay away and alienate all my allies," he told Page Six. "They told me to tell my mom that my mom was the reason that I was leaning toward bisexual thoughts or whatever, because she was so open. They made me come out to my mom, who was literally like my best ally, and say, 'It's your fault.'"

'Pose' star Indya Moore said mom pushed her into conversion therapy

Trans and non-binary star Indya Moore, who uses she/they pronouns, recounted their experiences with conversion therapy in 2019, as her star began to rise while during the airing of "Pose," a groundbreaking series that followed the lives of Black and Latino gay and trans folks involved in the ballroom scene in New York City.

"I don't really remember having any friends at 14 years old, and I didn’t have that much freedom either. I came out to my mom at that age, and our relationship shifted drastically," Moore said. "She told me it wasn't normal to be gay and suggested taking me to the Kingdom Hall to meet with a few elders – one of them apparently 'used' to be gay – to initiate a form of conversion therapy."

"Pose" was co-created by Ryan Murphy, who executive-produced "Pray Away," a 2021 Netflix documentary about the "pray the gay away" movement, a religious belief that runs parallel to conversion therapy.

"I went to my junior prom and the next day my parents took me to a psychiatrist to cure me. Thankfully, I had a really good shrink, who at the end of our several sessions called my parents in and said, 'You have a choice here: You can try and change him and lose him, or you can accept him and love him,'" Murphy told The Hollywood Reporter in 2020. "I was very blessed."

Moore called Murphy out last week for being silent on trans rights since "Pose" ended, according to People and TheWrap.

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