Former 'Ex-Gay' Lears Denounce 'Conversn Therapy' In A New Documentary : NPR

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

GAY ART?. GAYMERS?. GAYMOJI ?.

“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.

IS IT POSSIBLE TO PRAY THE GAY AWAY?

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. 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.

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

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.

TRANS THE GAY AWAY

“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.

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

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.

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.

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

Moreover, there are licensed mental health profsnals who practice what are lled reparative or nversn therapi signed to make gay people heterosexual.

PRAY THE GAY AWAY

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. 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. The real diseas are homophobia and heterosexism, not homosexualy.

‘PRAY THE GAY AWAY’

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.

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

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.

PRAY THE GAY AWAY® THE MIL

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. 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.