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DOCTORS LL FOR END TO LGBTIQ+ HEALTH DISCRIMATN, GAY 'NVERSN' PRACTICTHE ATRALIAN MEDIL ASSOCIATN SAYS THE STAT AND TERRORI THAT STILL HAVEN'T BANNED GAY 'NVERSN' PRACTIC SHOULD DO SO.THE AMA HAS LLED FOR AN END TO GAY 'NVERSN' PRACTIC THAT ARE STILL LEGAL SOME STAT. SOURCE: AAPPROSPECTIVE MEDIL STUNTS SHOULD BE REQUIRED TO HAVE HEALTH KNOWLEDGE OF LGBTIQ+ PATIENTS AS A GRADUATE OUTE, ATRALIA'S DOCTORS' UNN SAYS, WHILE ALSO LLG ON JURISDICTNS LAGGG ON BANNG GAY 'NVERSN' PRACTIC TO ACT.THE ATRALIAN MEDIL ASSOCIATN HAS RELEASED A NEW POSN STATEMENT LLG FOR AN END TO DISCRIMATN AGAST LGBTIQ+ PEOPLE THE HEALTHRE SYSTEM, CLUDG PATIENTS AND HEALTH RE WORKERS.THE AMA ALSO WANTS ALL REMAG STATE AND TERRORY ERNMENTS TO BAN ERCIVE ‘NVERSN’ PRACTIC, WH ONLY VICTORIA, THE ACT AND QUEENSLAND HAVG LEGISLATN PLACE.READ MORE:THE VICTORIAN PARLIAMENT HAS PASSED A BILL BANNG GAY NVERSN THERAPY“CONVERSN PRACTIC ARE A BLATANT EXAMPLE OF THE DISCRIMATN FACED BY LGBTQIA+ PEOPLE ATRALIA AND HAVE NO PLACE OUR SOCIETY,” AMA PRINT OMAR KHORSHID SAID.DR KHORSHID LLED ON MEDIL PRACTNERS TO AFFIRM YOGYAKARTA PRCIPLE 32 THAT ‘NO-ONE SHOULD BE SUBJECTED TO VASIVE OR IRREVERSIBLE MEDIL PROCR THAT MODIFY SEX CHARACTERISTICS WHOUT THEIR EE, PRR AND RMED NSENT, UNLS NECSARY TO AVOID SER, URGENT AND IRREPARABLE HARM TO THE NCERNED PERSON’.THE ASSOCIATN SAYS THE ATRALIAN MEDIL COUNCIL SHOULD CLU LGBTIQ+ HEALTH KNOWLEDGE AS A GRADUATE OUTE FOR MEDIL STUNTS.“AS DOCTORS ’S IMPORTANT WE TE OURSELV ABOUT HOW BT TO SERVE LGBTQIA+ PATIENTS AND MAKE OUR WORKPLAC MORE CLIVE FOR LGBTQIA+ LLEAGU WORKG THE MEDIL AND HEALTH PROFSNS,” DR KHORSHID SAID.SHARE2 M READPUBLISHED 19 NOVEMBER 2021 9:06AMUPDATED 19 NOVEMBER 2021 9:52AMSOURCE: SBS NEWSAVAILABLE OTHER LANGUAGTAGSBSATRALIAPACIFICSHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHAREREMEND FOR YOU

The Atralian Medil Associatn says the stat and terrori that still haven't banned gay 'nversn' practic should do so. * gay doctors association australia *

Gay. Prospective medil stunts should be required to have health knowledge of LGBTIQ+ patients as a graduate oute, Atralia's doctors' unn says, while also llg on jurisdictns laggg on banng gay 'nversn' practic to Atralian Medil Associatn has released a new posn statement llg for an end to discrimatn agast LGBTIQ+ people the healthre system, cludg patients and health re AMA also wants all remag state and terrory ernments to ban ercive ‘nversn’ practic, wh only Victoria, the ACT and Queensland havg legislatn place. Gay Friendly General Practner List | WAAC.

ABOUT DR GEE FAN-SMH, A GAY MELBOURNE DOCTOR

Dr Gee Fan-Smh is a gay doctor Melbourne Atralia. Wh strong trag gay men's health he is a keen advote for men's health Atralia. * gay doctors association australia *

WAAC and M Clic mata a list of gay, bi & trans iendly GPs (if you are a service provir ntact so that we n discs addg you to the list! If you are lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and/or intify as a sexual and/or genr mory and are lookg for LGBTQ+ affirmg doctors, physicians, clicians, and healthre provirs, you have e to the right place. This black-and-whe photograph of a medil ntaer fted wh a long plastic tube might appear, at first glance, 's a penile plethysmograph: a vice ed to measure chang penis volume rponse to erotic a "penis lie tector", was ed by a Sydney-based psychiatrist who nducted gay aversn therapy ssns the late 1960s and applitn of Neil McConaghy's homema vice — and how was received by the public, rearchers and LGBTIQ activists — reveals a great al about changg attus towards homosexualy Atralia.

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'Treatg' homosexualy wh aversn therapy Dr McConaghy the 1950s (left) and 1960s (right). (Supplied: Neil McConaghy Papers/ Kate Davison)In an era where homosexualy was not only classified as a medil disorr, but illegal Atralia, Dr McConaghy was a major proponent of aversn therapy.

"I felt at the end of that week, I'd paid the price … I'd done everythg I n to do what the Church or God wants me to do, and that was , " he 'zappg the gay away'Alongsi the plethysmograph, Dr McConaghy ed apomorphe and electric shocks for the ndng part of the treatment: eher jectg morphe at a dose that would duce nsea when men were shown photographs of other men, or givg them an electric shock as the photographs were McConaghy ed the aversn therapy techniqu not to nvert his patients, but to hib what were then emed "viant" sir. "He was not terted 'zappg the gay away', " Ms Davison says.

But also, he was very, very cur about the way the bra worked terms of sexualy, " says Dr a foundg member of Campaign Agast Moral Persecutn (CAMP), she terviewed Dr McConaghy the 1970s and mpaigned agast his missn, addn to tg church groups and school groups, was to try and nvce Dr McConaghy that "the biggt problem homosexuals faced was not their homosexualy but people's reactn to ". "In other words, was the begng of talkg about homophobia, " she says.

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"But what did happen was we nvced homosexuals to stop gog and gettg treatment … so he stopped dog bee he didn't have any patients. Another reason was that he was affected by the gay liberatn movement. Yet gay, transgenr, and queer people often have a hard time fdg LGBTQIA+-iendly doctors.

LGBTQIA+ people livg areas wh lots of anti-gay prejudice live about 12 years shorter than those more acceptg areas.

In an era where homosexualy was nsired a medil disorr Atralia, a vice dubbed the "penis lie tector" was ed alongsi aversn therapy to "treat" gay men. * gay doctors association australia *

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