Is It Possible to Pray the Gay Away? | Psychology Today

Contents:

• TIME MAGAZE PROMOT ‘TRANS-THE-GAY-AWAY’ CHILD
• IS IT POSSIBLE TO PRAY THE GAY AWAY?
• RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN
• TRANS THE GAY AWAY
• ‘PRAY AWAY THE GAY’ HAS GONE AWAY. WHY ARE GOVERNMENTS TRYG TO STOP IT?
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• PRAY THE GAY AWAY
• ‘PRAY THE GAY AWAY’
• FORMER 'EX-GAY' LEARS DENOUNCE 'CONVERSN THERAPY' IN A NEW DOCUMENTARY
• PRAY THE GAY AWAY® THE MIL

TIME MAGAZE PROMOT ‘TRANS-THE-GAY-AWAY’ CHILD

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“Time Magaze and all of the other magaz are endorsg the trans-the-gay away procs, ” rpond Natasha Chart, an activist who argu that transgenr iology stroys the cultural and legal foundatns of women’s rights and stat. Instead of acceptg a feme boy who may well grow up to be gay or lbian, the parents are g the transgenr claim to “trans-the-gay-away” by nvertg their embarrassg son to a non-embarrassg dghter, she said, addg:. Shappley’s mother admted that she beat the boy at a young age bee she feared he would grow up to be gay.

I remember even thkg before Kai was three, I thk this kid might be gay, and I thought that that uld not happen, that would not happen. Homophobic child abe. “I was very ncerned, bee at the time I was leadg a small mistry at my church and teachg Bible study, and here I have this kid who people my fay were flat askg me if this kid was gay.

IS IT POSSIBLE TO PRAY THE GAY AWAY?

Not a gay boy, not a sissy! “Tradnally, if somebody didn’t like their gay kid, they would jt tell them to leave home, they wouldn’t strate them, ” said Aharon.

It might be hard to accept that your child is gay and do viate om the norm. A surprisg number of proment gays enurage this “trans-the-gay-away” procs, Aharon said:. I fd really que md-bogglg that proment, famo gay men support the ia of Kai [Shappley] and Jazz Jenngs [gog through this procs] bee they don’t see themselv that whole story.

RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN

“Now 18 years old, Jaah, who wr mic, has e forward revealg that she was a lbian that had stggled wh ternalized homophobia as a kid. It’s a much broar movement to dismantle the sex bary, to see blogy as a functn of power and not science, and thereby to nstct the fay and even a fixed tegory such as homosexualy … The radilism of this asslt on nature, science and bodily tegry is not hidn … a view of the body as beyond sex or genr, to be created and recreated at will and fely, and an abandonment of any stable notn of sex at all. It clus alienated young men fantasizg about beg submissive women, lbians tryg to bee men, teenage girls tryg to flee a sexual environment twisted by pornography, and gay teenagers tryg to pe their mory stat by adoptg an attempted mastream male inty.

The revelatns surroundg Marc Bachmann's psychotherapy practice along wh his statements equatg gay people to barbarians reflect the eply held view among too many people that homosexualy is a psychologil or moral choice that n be altered and ed should be. As someone who profs to help gays and lbians bee "straight, " Dr.

TRANS THE GAY AWAY

There are several nservative relig anizatns, like Exod Internatnal and Homosexuals Anonymo, that claim to have helped people change their sexual orientatn through prayer, unselg, or a batn of both.

Moreover, there are licensed mental health profsnals who practice what are lled reparative or nversn therapi signed to make gay people heterosexual. The bt-known group of such clicians is the Natnal Associatn for Rearch and Therapy of Homosexualy (NARTH), led by psychologist Joseph Nilosi.

He and his followers claim that gays and lbians suffer om a damagg blend of childhood trma, shamg their fai of orig, and chronic unmet needs for love and affectn om their same-sex parents. Reparative therapy supposedly helps gay clients bee heterosexual by workg wh them to amelrate toxic feelgs stemmg om their damaged childhoods. Robert Spzer, a proment psychiatrist who, oddly enough, led the charge to remove homosexualy as a disease om the Diagnostic and Statistil Manual, had unrtaken rearch wh 200 women and men who unrwent reparative therapy and believed themselv to be "cured" of homosexualy, as evinced by their abily to engage sexual relatns wh the oppose sex, marry heterosexually, and nceive children.

‘PRAY AWAY THE GAY’ HAS GONE AWAY. WHY ARE GOVERNMENTS TRYG TO STOP IT?

In fact, there are many reports of people unrgog treatments offered by ex-gay mistri who not only return to homosexualy but have also been trmatized by this so-lled therapy.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

The real diseas are homophobia and heterosexism, not homosexualy. It is important to regnize that the great majory of psychotherapy profsnals argue vociferoly that such "treatment" is uhil bee homosexualy is not an illns — rather the "illns" is our tolerance of sexual and genr behavrs fallg outsi rtrictive societal norms. I also tell clients that reparative and nversn therapi, bis beg effective, are psychologilly harmful to gays and lbians, which is another reason I do not remend them and will not assist clients procurg such treatment.

People like Marc and Michele Bachmann believe that acceptg and even celebratg gay and lbian people will evably lead to the moral cle of our society.

PRAY THE GAY AWAY

Image source, Emma RileyImage ptn, Rad operator Emma Riley was discharged om the Navy for beg a lbian the 1990sRishi Sunak has apologised for the historil treatment of LGBT veterans who were sacked or forced out of the ary for beg PM lled the ban an "appallg failure" of the Brish was illegal to be gay the Brish ary until 2000 - wh thoands of veterans thought to be affected. Addrsg MPs, the prime mister said: "Many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment all while bravely servg this untry.

"The LGBT Veterans Inpennt Review, led by Bra's first openly gay judge Lord Etherton, began last year and heard about the experienc of 1, 145 veterans between 1967 to 2000. Homosexualy was crimalised the UK 1967 but a ban ntued the armed forc. Acrdg to the report, the Mistry of Defence said at the time that jtifitn for the policy clud "matenance of operatnal effectivens and efficiency" - but the report said there had been an "prehensible policy of homophobic bigotry" the armed forc.

‘PRAY THE GAY AWAY’

It heard shockg acunts of homophobia, bullyg, blackmail, sexual asslts, "disgraceful" medil examatns, and nversn mak 49 remendatns to the ernment cludg:Affected veterans to be given an "appropriate fancial reward" pped at £50m overallThe rtoratn of medals that had to be hand back on dismissal or dischargeThe clarifitn of pensn rights The prentatn of a special veterans' badgeThe ernment said would rpond full after summer of the veterans affected watched the PM's public of them, Emma Riley, 51, was a Royal Navy rad operator for three years before she was arrted and discharged for beg a lbian after tellg a lleague her sexualy the early told BBC News she weled the report, and hoped would be put to place "swiftly. Carol Man, who was dismissed after tellg her boss she was gay 1978, kept her sexualy secret for another 30 years and said she had been "robbed" of her life. "Olympian Dame Kelly Holm, who served the army and me out as gay last year, lled the publitn of the report a "historic moment", while Cathere Dixon, a former army officer who is now vice chair at Stonewall, said was "an important step towards jtice" for those whose ary reers were "ed" bee of their sexualy.

Many still have a crimal rerd to this also tails how some veterans faced a plete loss of e, while others were emed eligible to claim their pensn bee of their report more than 20 years after four servicemen and women, who were sacked for beg gay, won a se the European Court of Human Rights and overturned the armed forc chary Royal Brish Legn lled on the ernment to accept the report's remendatns chary's director general Charl Byrne weled both the report and Mr Sunak's "landmark apology", sayg many people who had dited their liv to the untry were "forced or felt prsured to leave the armed forc, and this mistreatment stroyed or shortened their reer". Molled on earlier pray the gay away. trans the gay away (third-person sgular simple prent trans the gay away, prent participle transg the gay away, simple past and past participle transed the gay away).

(genr-cril) To duce a gay person to unrgo genr transn so that they bee heterosexual. 2020 Febary 13, Mary Kate Fa (quoted), Mary Farrow, “On transgenrism: Common ground, and real differenc, between Catholics and radil femists”, Catholic News Agency‎[1]:We're seeg this new 'trans-the-gay-away' movement happeng, and people thk that 's progrsive, when realy this is happeng some of the most nservative areas across the globe.

FORMER 'EX-GAY' LEARS DENOUNCE 'CONVERSN THERAPY' IN A NEW DOCUMENTARY

2020 May 4, Moni Rose, “10 paful thgs I learned when my dghter transned”, MertorNet‎[2]:One plsible le of quiry by those qutng transng is whether volv homophobia, as the phrase "trans the gay away". 2021 Augt 12, Petra Kdler, “Conversn Therapi Bill”, Irish Tim (Letters)‎[3]:A gay clician there rigned due to ncerns that some parents appeared overly happy to "trans the gay away". 2022 September 12, Hayley Dixon, “Tavistock clic 'puttg young gay people at risk by treatg them as trans'”, The Telegraph‎[4]:LGB Alliance believ that treatment at the NHS’s Tavistock Clic is "transg the gay away".

Geni Pictur (“Mrs Lowry & Son, ” “Good Luck To You, Leo Gran”) has optned Emmett Monterey’s acclaimed memoir “Go the Way Your Blood Beats” – about growg up gay and disabled 1980s London – for TV adaptatn. At his mastream school, teachers refe to schle his class on the ground floor, and at his llege for disabled stunts, he’s told he will be expelled if the mors are te, if he’s gay.

To LGBT Christians who tried to "pray the gay away", did work? I'm askg this bee today marks the 4th year I tried to pray my gay away.

PRAY THE GAY AWAY® THE MIL

I never wanted to be gay. I've seen untls people on the ter who claim to be "ex-gay" and say they were ntrolled by the vil. In realy, transgenrism is a homophobic movement that directly oppos the terts of LGB LGB muny has been sold the lie that lbians, gay men, and bisexual men and women (a group of people who are same-sex attracted) have somethg mon wh the T (a polil fictn).

This strategy, known as forced teamg, has been so succsful that LGB culture has succumbed to transgenr people doctrated to transgenr iology have unwtgly bee foot soldiers and missnari for rporate-backed homophobia, wh more and more beg sced to attemptg to “trans the gay away.

Due to external homophobia and the rultg ternalized shame, some same-sex attracted people are drawn to perceived “cur” for homosexualy.