LGBT Rights Brazil: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more.
Contents:
- BRAZILIAN JUDGE APPROV 'GAY NVERSN THERAPY', SPARKG NATNAL OUTRAGE
- THE CEL, DANGERO REALY OF GAY NVERSN THERAPY
BRAZILIAN JUDGE APPROV 'GAY NVERSN THERAPY', SPARKG NATNAL OUTRAGE
The lg overturns a natnal psychology uncil cisn 1999 forbiddg psychologists om offerg treatments claimg to ‘cure’ gay people * brazil gay conversion therapy *
People prott agast the cisn of a Brazilian judge who approved gay nversn therapy Sao... Brazilian feral judge Walmar Carvalho overled a 1999 cisn by the Feral Council of Psychology that forba psychologists om offerg wily discreded treatments which claims to cure gay people.
"People prott agast the cisn of a Brazilian judge who approved gay nversn therapy Sao... Madrigal-Borloz says that crimalisatn rults "young LGBT people droppg out of school three tim more than non-LGBT people, or trans people gettg HIV/AIDS, 47 tim more than gay men - and even 76 tim more than the general populatn. In the Uned Stat, an timated 700, 000 lbian, gay, trans, or genr variant people have been subjected to the practic at some pot their liv.
THE CEL, DANGERO REALY OF GAY NVERSN THERAPY
Madrigal-Borloz llected numero ttimoni om lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and genr variant people who were victims of the practic. “Conversn therapi" e profound physil and psychologil trma to lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and genr variant people of all ag who are victims of the practic, he says.
One of the platiffs the se is a psychologist whose license was revoked for offerg the treatment and once scribed homosexualy as a “disease. The World Health Organizatn removed homosexualy om s list of mental disorrs 1990, a shift om seeg homosexualy as an illns to a natural variatn of human sexualy.
There would likely be an uproar if a therapist tried to change a heterosexual to a homosexual, but the absurd logic is the same. In the US 2015, four men and two of their parents succsfully sued Jews Offerg Alternativ for Healg (JONAH) unr New Jersey’s Consumer Frd Act for false advertisg nversn therapy ‘succs’ statistics and mischaracterizg homosexualy as a mental illns. Siarly, Cha, 2014, a Beijg urt sid wh a young gay man who had unrgone nversn therapy a private clic.