Liberty University, an evangelical institution in the state of Virginia, faces turmoil after former students filed a lawsuit against the US Board of Education for allowing so-called conversion therapy and other discriminatory practices against LGBTQI+ individuals to occur in schools receiving public funding.One of the plaintiffs is Lucas Wilson, who for four years underwent Liberty University’s so-called gender conversion therapy. Toronto-born Wilson wants to put an end to American universities’ ability to disseminate homophobic thought with the US taxpayers’ dime.Lucas Wilson attended Liberty University from 2008 to 2012 and was put into contact with the university’s gender conversion programme shortly after enrolling.
