New York Rtricts Fundg for ‘Gay Conversn’ Therapy - WSJ

Contents:

• NEW YORK CY IS ENDG A BAN ON GAY CONVERSN THERAPY. HERE’S WHY.
• NEW YORK TO BEE 15TH STATE TO BAN 'GAY NVERSN THERAPY'
• I WAS TORTURED GAY CONVERSN THERAPY. AND IT’S STILL LEGAL 41 STAT.
• NEW YORK RTRICTS FUNDG FOR ‘GAY CONVERSN’ THERAPY
• BILL AIMG TO BAN GAY CONVERSN THERAPY FOR MORS TO BE INTRODUCED IN NEW YORK
• CUOMO MOV TO BAN GAY CONVERSN THERAPY IN NEW YORK, CALLG IT 'FUNDAMENTALLY FLAWED'
• WHAT I LEARNED FROM GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
• NEW YORK GOV. CUOMO ANNOUNC REGULATNS TO PREVENT GAY ‘NVERSN THERAPY’
• NEW YORK CY LOOKS TO REPEAL 'GAY NVERSN THERAPY' BAN

NEW YORK CY IS ENDG A BAN ON GAY CONVERSN THERAPY. HERE’S WHY.

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe Cy Council fears that if a feral lawsu challengg the ban were to reach the Supreme Court, the panel uld issue a lg that protected the Sanrs for The New York TimNearly two years ago, the New York Cy Council celebrated when passed a far-reachg ban on nversn therapy, a discreded practice to change a person’s sexual orientatn or genr Thursday, Corey Johnson, the Council speaker, who is gay, said the Council would act swiftly to repeal the move is a gamb signed to ntralize a feral lawsu filed agast the cy by a nservative Christian legal anizatn; if the se were to be heard by the Supreme Court, advot for the L. “I’m heartened that the Cy Council pulled back a statute that uld unrme efforts natnally to end nversn therapy bee might be viewed as overly broad, ” said State Senator Brad Hoylman, a Manhattan Democrat, and the state’s only openly gay senator. “New York has a pellg tert protectg the physil and psychologil well-beg of mors, cludg lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr youth, ” the bill reads part, “and protectg s mors agast exposure to ser harms ed by sexual orientatn change efforts.

”The ban is part of a larger LGBTQ rights ph announced by Cuomo last year, an agenda that clus prohibg the so-lled gay panic fense urt and addg genr inty to state human rights and hate crime laws.

”The harms of nversn therapySan Francis State Universy found that “pared wh LGBTQ young people who were not rejected or were only a ltle rejected by their parents and regivers bee of their gay or transgenr inty, highly rejected LGBTQ young people were:. 57, 000 youth (ag 13-17) across all stat will receive nversn therapy om relig or spirual advisors before they reach the age of UCLA Williams InstuteStatements by Natnal AssociatnsAmerin Psychologil Associatn:Affirms that same-sex sexual and romantic attractns, feelgs, and behavrs are normal and posive variatns of human sexualy regardls of sexual orientatn inty; reaffirms s posn that homosexualy per se is not a mental disorr and oppos portrayals of sexual mory youths and adults as mentally ill due to their sexual orientatn nclus that there is sufficient evince to support the e of psychologil terventns to change sexual orientatn; enurag mental health profsnals to avoid misreprentg the efficy of sexual orientatn change efforts by promotg or promisg change sexual orientatn when providg assistance to dividuals distrsed by their own or others’ sexual orientatn…Amerin Psychiatric Associatn:… In 1997 APA produced a fact sheet on homosexual and bisexual issu, which stat that “there is no published scientific evince supportg the efficy of “reparative therapy” as a treatment to change one’s sexual orientatn. ”The potential risks of “reparative therapy” are great and clu prsn, anxiety, and self-stctive behavr, sce therapist alignment wh societal prejudic agast homosexualy may rerce self-hatred already experienced by the patient.

NEW YORK TO BEE 15TH STATE TO BAN 'GAY NVERSN THERAPY'

Many patients who have unrgone “reparative therapy” relate that they were accurately told that homosexuals are lonely, unhappy dividuals who never achieve acceptance or satisfactn. The possibily that the person might achieve happs and satisfyg terpersonal relatnships as a gay man or lbian are not prented, nor are alternative approach to alg wh the effects of societal stigmatizatn discsed…Therefore, APA oppos any psychiatric treatment, such as “reparative” or “nversn” therapy, that is based on the assumptn that homosexualy per se is a mental disorr or is based on the a prri assumptn that the patient should change his or her homosexual of US anizatns that have nounced nversn therapy:.

But provirs, ually unlicensed, n often disguise the terms they e to avoid beg terms clu:Sexual attractn fluidy exploratn therapy (SAFE-T)Elimatg, rcg, or creasg equency or tensy of unwanted same-sex attractn (SSA)Reparative therapySexual reorientatn effortsEx-gay mistryPromotg healthy sexualyAddrsg sexual addictns and disorrsSexualy unselgEnuragg relatnal and sexual wholensHealg sexual brokennsConversn therapy techniqu n lead to feelg “ls than” or “damaged, ” impactg self-teem. 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.

I was told that my fah muny rejected my sexualy; that I was the abomatn we had heard about Sunday school; that I was the only gay person the world; that was evable I would get H.

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An even larger number of youth, an timated 57, 000 teenagers, will receive the treatment om a relig or spirual adviser before proment profsnal health associatn, cludg the Amerin Medil Associatn, the Amerin Psychologil Associatn and the Amerin Amy of Pediatrics, oppos the e of nversn therapy on youth, llg harmful and practice n be performed by a licensed therapist an office, a rrectnal-style mpground, by a parent ntuoly punishg a child for actg too feme or by a pastor who wants to pray the gay away. NEW YORK -- The fight agast a ntroversial therapy that purports to "cure" gay people of their gayns and make them straight has e to New York. The therapy has been around for s, but has e unr creased scty the last few years as gay rights supporters have argued don't work and may e great harm to those who unrgo .

NEW YORK RTRICTS FUNDG FOR ‘GAY CONVERSN’ THERAPY

"There are often challeng to any manner of legislatn that is protectg of the LGBT muny and you n't s on your hands and wa until thgs get rolved somewhere else, " said Glick, who beme the first openly gay legislator New York 1990.

BILL AIMG TO BAN GAY CONVERSN THERAPY FOR MORS TO BE INTRODUCED IN NEW YORK

Glick's tert the ban grew out of her work wh lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr youth, who make up more than 40 percent of the young homels populatn Ameri. "The rate of suici, the level of prsn, the kd of bullyg school that is foced on homophobic ephets, even when stunts clearly are not gay. Opponents of the legislatn and advot for do tend to agree on at least one pot: nversn therapy bans s at the heart of the culture war over gay rights.

"Its symbolic of the overall bate, and what unrli the belief of those who support this kd of therapy is that there is somethg wrong wh beg gay or lbian, " Gianaris said on Thursday. "And 's important that as we're securg victori the marriage fights that we don't let attacks on our gay and lbian youth occur other forms.

CUOMO MOV TO BAN GAY CONVERSN THERAPY IN NEW YORK, CALLG IT 'FUNDAMENTALLY FLAWED'

The Democratic ernor's move, announced Saturday, as gay rights advot have mpaigned state by state wh mixed rults to try to ban a practice that major mental health anizatns have repudiated. But proponents and crics have said is not rare for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr youths to unrgo some sort of program aimed at changg their sexual orientatn or genr inty or exprsn. The Amerin Psychologil Associatn and other mental health groups say nversn therapy, sometim lled reparative therapy, wrongly treats beg gay as a mental illns and may make young people feel ashamed, anx and prsed.

” When he returned to the Catholic Church at age 36, his experience wh nversn therapy Pate said his Catholic therapist, like many who attempt to help patients change their sexual orientatn, believed that homosexualy was ed by childhood sexual abe or alienatn om one’s parents: what Mr. Catholics will ever seek nversn therapy, the assumptns unrlyg that therapy often fluence the msage many gay Catholics hear at home, the nfsnal and om iends and mentors. Brothers Road scrib self as “a non-prof, multi-fah, ternatnal fellowship primarily of men om bisexual or same-sex-attracted backgrounds who—for our own, eply personal reasons—typilly do not accept or intify wh the label ‘gay’ and prefer stead to explore and addrs unrlyg issu and embrace our thentic masculy.

Pate was quick to note: “I hear a lot of our [gay] siblgs say, ‘I’m a survivor of nversn therapy, ’ and I don’t put myself that tegory.

WHAT I LEARNED FROM GAY CONVERSN THERAPY

”Catholic InfluencThe Catholic media personaly Milo Yiannopoulos recently began llg himself “ex-gay” and announced plans to open a “reparative therapy” clic Florida. Fzgibbons -thored Homosexualy and Hope, a pamphlet published by the Catholic Medil Associatn, which advot theraptic “preventn and treatment” of same-sex attractn. Another Catholic, Joseph Nilosi, who died 2017, was a -founr of the Natnal Associatn for the Rearch and Therapy of Homosexualy, a secular group formed 1992 that is now lled the Alliance for Theraptic Choice and Scientific Integry.

Nilosi said of young people experiencg same-sex attractn: “So when a 15-year-old boy go to a prit and says, ‘Father, I have the feelgs, I have the temptatns, ’ that prit should say, ‘You have a choice; if you don’t want to be gay, there are thgs that you n do.

NEW YORK GOV. CUOMO ANNOUNC REGULATNS TO PREVENT GAY ‘NVERSN THERAPY’

” A group prottg the nference hung a banner on archdcan property that featured a quote attributed to the Dert Stream/Livg Waters founr, Andrew Comiskey, and that read part, “There is no such thg as a ‘gay’ is a popular myth. The people I terviewed said Catholic stutns may not wily promote nversn therapy, but the msag gay believers hear Catholic spac help promote the ia that nversn is possible.

Many gay Catholics have heard, over and over, that nobody is “born gay”; that homosexualy is typilly ed by trma; that beg gay is a purely negative experience om which they have nothg to learn, and om which the broar church has nothg to learn.

The specific theori and practic of nversn therapy draw on a ep well of silence and shame that affects all gay Catholics, cludg those who never step si a therapist’s office. Tristan did not thk of her sexualy as the only issue she was alg wh, but when she raised other ncerns, she said, her therapist seemed to thk beg gay was the central problem.

NEW YORK CY LOOKS TO REPEAL 'GAY NVERSN THERAPY' BAN

The four 30-hour urs he took at the stute rerced his belief “that I would be healed by learng about [homosexualy] enough and prayg enough. Bob, as we all lovgly ll him” as “an amazg, lovg man, ” who nohels nvced him of what he now se as “misrmatn” about the nature and orig of homosexualy, attributg a “homosexual clatn” to problems fay relatnships, sexual trma cludg e of pornography, the lack of a proper velopment of masculy and other “wounds”—ias he later heard om prits the Schuchts, thor of the upg book Be Rtored: Healg Our Sexual Wounds Through J’ Merciful Love, disagreed wh the labelg of his work as of “misrmatn, ” statg that all of the materials om the John Pl II Healg Center have approval om the lol bishop and his books have obtaed an imprimatur.

But livg wh men who didn’t know he was gay, and who often exprsed homophobia (at which Kent tried to lgh rponse), proved so gelg that he beme physilly ill. ”As he began to leave nversn therapy behd, Kent read gay narrativ like The Velvet Rage: Overg the Pa of Growg Up Gay a Straight Man’s World, by the psychologist Alan Downs. On Febary 6, 2016, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a seri of regulatns to prevent the e of nversn therapy on lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and qutng (LGBTQ) mors.