Gay nversn therapy: 'I thought beg straight would make me happy' - BBC Three

Contents:

• 5 THGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
• GAY CONVERSN THERAPY IS STILL LEGAL 41 STAT
• GAY NVERSN THERAPY: 'I THOUGHT BEG STRAIGHT WOULD MAKE ME HAPPY'
• ‘THEY/THEM’ FILM REVIEW: SHARP SCRIPT GIV BE TO GAY-CONVERSN CAMP HORROR STORY
• 4 STRAIGHT FACTS ABOUT ‘GAY CONVERSN’ THERAPY
• GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS

5 THGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT GAY CONVERSN THERAPY

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A number of medil and mental health anizatns have issued public statements rejectg the e of nversn therapy bee of many provirs who claim to be qualified to provi nversn therapy are often not licensed mental health practners or medil study found that LGBTQ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or qutng) people who are rejected or discrimated agast are:8 tim more likely to report havg attempted suiciAlmost 6 tim more likely to report high levels of prsnMore than 3 tim as likely to e illegal dgs3 tim more likely to be at high risk of HIV and other STDsAcrdg to rearch, nearly 700, 000 LGBTQ adults the U. For timat of the proportn of youth who intify as lbian, gay, or bisexual see Lra Kann et al., Sexual Inty, Sex of Sexual Contacts, and Health-Related Behavrs among Stunts Gras 9-12 – Uned Stat and Selected S, 2015 (2016). On Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Issu, Posn Statement: Sexual Orientatn Change Efforts (SOCE) and Conversn Therapy wh Lbians, Gay Men, Bisexuals, and Transgenr Persons (2015), Release, Am.

GAY CONVERSN THERAPY IS STILL LEGAL 41 STAT

6, 2018), Marketg, Virgia Electn Poll (May 26, 2017), poll052016/ Moore, Only 8% of Amerins Thk Gay Conversn Therapy Works,, June 12, 2014, news/2014/06/12/gay-nversn-therapy/ B.

Rearch has shown nversn therapy primarily tends to be effective and harmful, cludg a 2014 study om the Journal of Counselg Psychology and a 2013 study om Journal of Homosexualy. In 1899, German psychiatrist Albert von Schrenck-Notzg claimed he turned a gay man straight through "45 hypnosis ssns and a few trips to a brothel, " acrdg to, kickg off the phenomenon of nversn therapy. The gay nversn therapy movement lost substantial credibily after a 2009 report om the APA showed there was no evince for the efficy of nversn therapi and the practice is often harmful, says Tom Waidzunas, Temple Universy profsor and thor of "The Straight Le: How the Frge Science of Ex-Gay Therapy Reoriented Sexualy.

Conversn therapy anizatn formerly known as the Natnal Associatn for Rearch and Therapy of Homosexualy, that ed to partner wh Exod Internatnal, has now rebrand to the Alliance for Theraptic Choice and Scientific Integry.

GAY NVERSN THERAPY: 'I THOUGHT BEG STRAIGHT WOULD MAKE ME HAPPY'

A therapy that claims to nvert gay people to heterosexuals is beg tted urt wh two new s, one of which seeks to sue unselors offerg the therapy and the other seekg to fend nversn therapy, as is known, supposedly helps gay people overe same-sex attractns. [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. 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 Tim.

Why psychologists say nversn therapy don't workHomosexualy 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.

‘THEY/THEM’ FILM REVIEW: SHARP SCRIPT GIV BE TO GAY-CONVERSN CAMP HORROR STORY

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.

4 STRAIGHT FACTS ABOUT ‘GAY CONVERSN’ THERAPY

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’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS

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. 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.