This article vers myths about gay men and trma that are gettg the way of mental health and seekg unsellg or therapy Canada.
Contents:
- LET’S SET THE RERD STRAIGHT—ABE DON’T MAKE YOU GAY
- THE V-SPOT: AM I GAY/QUEER BEE OF SEXUAL TRMA?
- 3 MYTHS ABOUT GAY MEN & TRMA
- TREATMENT OF GAY MEN FOR POST-TRMATIC STRS DISORR RULTG OM SOCIAL OSTRACISM AND RIDICULE: GNIVE BEHAVR THERAPY AND EYE MOVEMENT SENSIZATN AND REPROCSG APPROACH
LET’S SET THE RERD STRAIGHT—ABE DON’T MAKE YOU GAY
* trauma make you gay *
For example, we do know that children who are perceived as gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenred are more at risk for beg sexually abed so when you study how many women who intify as a lbian have been sexually abed, the numbers may be higher than the general public.
Take a look at this article:The problem wh the belief that child sexual asslt homosexualy/bisexualy.
THE V-SPOT: AM I GAY/QUEER BEE OF SEXUAL TRMA?
Born male, Smh is also a child of divorce, and further reports experiencg "vlent homophobic abe" throughout childhood and adolcence, as well as "homophobia and bullyg the gay muny. "I am both terrified and trated to no end that this myth—that abe n 'make you gay'—is still very much alive and well. I am both terrified and trated to no end that this myth—that abe n “make you gay”—is still very much alive and well.
3 MYTHS ABOUT GAY MEN & TRMA
Y, bad experienc n make leery of people who are the same genr, race, and age as our aber, but they do not make gay, bisexual, or transgenr. You see, the rrelatn between beg a survivor of abe and queer inty is that beg of margalized inty general mak you more likely to be targeted by predatory dividuals; nnot however make you change om straight to gay, or om cisgenr to transgenr.
I’m my late teens and have intified as gay/queer for the last few years. I hate the ia that I’m gay bee I was raped, but I don’t know if my intifyg as gay stead of bisexual or pansexual is bee of that.
TREATMENT OF GAY MEN FOR POST-TRMATIC STRS DISORR RULTG OM SOCIAL OSTRACISM AND RIDICULE: GNIVE BEHAVR THERAPY AND EYE MOVEMENT SENSIZATN AND REPROCSG APPROACH
I also sometim wonr if ’s jt my own ternalized homophobia (om growg up a pretty nservative fay) and secretly wishg that I was straight. When to sexual trma, however, often we are socially prompted to wonr if gayns has been ed by the abe. Meang, if I, a woman, was abed by a woman I might be prompted to wonr if I am now gay bee of that experience.
And also, if I, a woman, was abed by a man, I might STILL be prompted to wonr if I am now gay bee of that experience.