Sy Rogers, an “ex-gay,” “ex-transgender” minister, has died of kidney cancer at age 63.Rogers, who died Sunday in Winter Park, Fla., was president of Exodus International, an organization promoting conversion therapy, for a time in the 1980s.
Exodus International shut down in 2013, with Alan Chambers, who was president at the time, denouncing its mission. The practice, designed to turn LGBTQ people straight or cisgender, has been condemned by major health organizations as ineffective and