He might just as well correlate the other way around. He could observe that queerness causes trauma, which is what we queer people say. It's also what professional mental health researchers say.

No wonder his university had a beef with him. He's denying the data, denying the science.

It's interesting that while Pennsylvania's conversion-therapy religious exemption was supposedly meant to apply to religious ministers and teachers performing purely religious functions, this guy presents himself as a professional therapist, a psychologist – but in an exempt religious setting.

This is EXACTLY what LGBTQ advocates predicted would happen given the religious exemptions in the law. The only people who have any interest in promoting or practicing conversion therapy are conservative religious people. So when you exempt religious people and organizations from the law, you don't really ban conversion therapy. Nothing actually changes.

And just as bad, you get science-denying fools like this guy providing a fig leaf to conservative Christians who want to believe conversion therapy works.

It doesn't, demonstrably, which is why his university wanted to deny having a diploma in the first place. Because he refused to learn the subject matter they taught him.