In a dramatic moment when Maryland legislators were considering the ban last year, then-Del. Meagan Simonaire told colleagues her mother and father — himself a state senator who had spoken in favor of keeping the practice legal — had suggested to her when she was in her early 20s that she try the therapy to “fix” her bisexuality. Sen. Bryan Simonaire, an Anne Arundel Republican, later said he and his wife wanted their daughter to seek Christian counseling, not conversion therapy.