Gay Conversn Therapy Is Alive and Well Onle - #GAYNRD

Contents:

• 5 SURPRISG FACTS ABOUT GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
• GAY CONVERSN THERAPY IS STILL LEGAL 41 STAT
• GAY NVERSN THERAPY STILL THRIVG ONLE SPE NMNATN OF EX-GAY MISTRI
• GAY CONVERSN THERAPY IS ALIVE AND WELL ONLE
• GAY AND TRANS PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN TO CONVERSN THERAPY ARE SHARG THEIR TRMATIC STORI, AND IT'S A REMR WHY IT NEEDS TO BE ABOLISHED

5 SURPRISG FACTS ABOUT GAY CONVERSN THERAPY

Gay Therapy(Image cred: Dreamstime)Gay nversn therapy, as is known, supposedly helps gay people overe same-sex attractns. But mastream psychologists say the therapy is effective, uhil and often harmful, exacerbatg anxiety and self-hatred among those treated for what is not a mental 2013, two s volvg the therapy to nvert gay people to heterosexuals h the urts, wh one seekg to sue unselors who offer the therapy and the other seekg to fend are five thgs you need to know about the therapy and the current psychologists say nversn therapy don't workA diagnosis of major prsn do not evoke much rponse, eher a stigmatizg or supportive, om a person's social work, a study dited. (Image cred: Oleg Golovnev | shutterstock)Homosexualy is not nsired a mental disorr, so the Amerin Psychologil Associatn (APA) do not remend "curg" same-sex attractn any se.

Instead, societal ignorance, prejudice and prsure to nform to heterosexual sir are the real dangers to gay people's mental health, acrdg to a 1997 statement on "nversn" or "reparative" therapy by the APA. [7 Absolutely Evil Medil Experiments]More recently, people who have been through nversn therapy report talk therapy that emphasiz psdoscientific theori, such as the ia that an overbearg mother and a distant father make a child gay.

In an April 2012 say The Amerin Prospect, wrer Gabriel Arana scrib his "ex-gay" therapy experience. His therapist blamed his parents for Arana's homosexualy, and urged him to distance himself om his female bt Lev, one of the men sug Jonah for ceptive practic, says that he qu nversn therapy after his therapist had him strip down and touch himself to "rennect wh his masculy, " acrdg to the New York 's happeng the urts?

GAY CONVERSN THERAPY IS STILL LEGAL 41 STAT

[5 Myths About Gay People Debunked]In a send se California, a feral judge is hearg arguments agast a new state law that bans nversn therapy for mors.

GAY NVERSN THERAPY STILL THRIVG ONLE SPE NMNATN OF EX-GAY MISTRI

Homosexualy was removed om the DSM 1974, a major tone for the 'psychiatrists' bible. ' (Image cred: Dubova, Shutterstock)The sire to turn gay people straight go way back.

In 1935, Frd went even further, wrg to a woman who wanted her homosexual son nverted that homosexualy "is nothg to be ashamed of, no vice, no gradatn; nnot be classified as an illns. "Other psychologists throughout the early mid-1900s believed homosexualy uld be changed and remend a variety of treatments. One of the stranger attempts was an effort by Vienne endocrologist Eugen Steach to transplant tticl om straight men to the scrotums of gay men an attempt to rid them of same-sex sir.

It didn’t of the most proment advot of nversn therapy the 1940s and 50s was Edmund Bergler, who saw homosexualy as a perversn and believed he uld "cure" gay people wh a punishment-based, nontatnal therapy the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn stopped classifyg homosexualy as a mental disorr 1973, nversn therapi lost support.

GAY CONVERSN THERAPY IS ALIVE AND WELL ONLE

But relig-right anizatns such as Exod Internatnal and Foc on the Fay's Love Won Out took up the charge, promotg their own "ex-gay" therapi.

A small group of psychologists, spltg wh their peers, ntue to promote the therapi, foundg the nversn therapy anizatn NARTH, or the Natnal Associatn for Rearch & Therapy of Homosexualy. [The 10 Most Controversial Psychiatric Disorrs]One study says worksNew rearch may shed light on how homosexualy has survived the gene pool. In 2003, famed psychiatrist Robert Spzer, who spearhead the removal of homosexualy om the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn's mental disorr list 1973, reported the journal Archiv of Sexual Behavr that terviews wh nversn therapy patients suggted that some people uld change their sexual paper was cendiary and highly cricized, given that relied on terviews wh patients stead of measurable benchmarks of same-sex sir.

Conservative groups were lighted to have support om Spzer, who wasn't tated wh relig bias or anti-gay iology; gay anizatns felt the end, however, Spzer me to agree wh his crics. "I believe I owe the gay muny an apology for my study makg unproven claims of the efficy of reparative therapy, " Spzer wrote. GAYS CAN CHANGE.

GAY AND TRANS PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN TO CONVERSN THERAPY ARE SHARG THEIR TRMATIC STORI, AND IT'S A REMR WHY IT NEEDS TO BE ABOLISHED

They believe that the whole gay issue has been so heavily policized om the APA down to street outrage that is almost impossible to get a fair hearg for those who voluntarily choose to abandon the homosexual liftyle. He heads an anizatn lled NARTH - the Natnal Associatn for Rearch & Therapy of Homosexualy. NARTH is a profsnal, scientific anizatn that offers hope to those who stggle wh unwanted homosexualy.

NARTH upholds the rights of dividuals wh unwanted homosexual attractn to receive effective psychologil re and the right of profsnals to offer that re. Nilosi: It is que amazg how to be gay and/or pro gay is to be anti-tellectual. Intellectually, impli an enquirg md as to atn and the unspoken taboo is never to ask why a person is homosexual.

It is amazg to me as a psychologist how my profsn will spend thoands of hours and dollars askg the most mute mundane and petty qutns and never ask why is this person Homosexual. [b]VOL: Well, is there a gay gene?