Gay Conversn Therapy's Disturbg 19th-Century Origs | HISTORY

Contents:

• 5 THGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
• NEW YORK CY IS ENDG A BAN ON GAY CONVERSN THERAPY. HERE’S WHY.
• GAY NVERSN THERAPY TO FIX ‘REVERSE CLATNS’ IS ALIVE AND WELL ISRAEL
• GAY MAN: "REVERSAL THERAPY" INEFFECTIVE
• CAN PEOPLE STOP BEG GAY?
• GAY MAN SAYS ‘REVERSAL’ THERAPY DID NOT CHANGE HIM
• GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS
• HOW CHRISTIANS TURNED AGAST GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
• 'CURA GAY': ENTENDA POR QUE TERAPIAS NVERSãO SEXUAL SãO UM EQUíVO

5 THGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT GAY CONVERSN THERAPY

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. [5 Myths About Gay People Debunked]In a send se California, a feral judge is hearg arguments agast a new state law that bans nversn therapy for mors.

[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. 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.

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

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 NVERSN THERAPY TO FIX ‘REVERSE CLATNS’ IS ALIVE AND WELL ISRAEL

But relig-right anizatns such as Exod Internatnal and Foc on the Fay's Love Won Out took up the charge, promotg their own "ex-gay" therapi.

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.

GAY MAN: "REVERSAL THERAPY" INEFFECTIVE

Conservative groups were lighted to have support om Spzer, who wasn't tated wh relig bias or anti-gay iology; gay anizatns felt the end, however, Spzer me to agree wh his crics. "I believe I owe the gay muny an apology for my study makg unproven claims of the efficy of reparative therapy, " Spzer Stephanie Pappas on Twter @sipappas or LiveScience @livcience. 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. The issue of nversn therapy Israel was brought to the fore followg a seri of homophobic statements by public figur, most notably former tn mister Rafi Peretz, whose ments clud a claim to have performed nversn therapi the past, and that his experience they are “possible. Gay nversn therapi, also lled reparative therapi, have been strongly disuraged Israel, the US, and elsewhere, wh major health anizatns potg to what they term psdo-scientific methods and the treatment of homosexualy as a mental illns.

CAN PEOPLE STOP BEG GAY?

There are an timated 20 to 30 licensed psychologists and social workers and 50 non-licensed therapists who practice some form of nversn therapy Israel, Rabbi Ron Yosef of the Orthodox gay anizatn Hod told The Associated Prs 2016. Atzat Nefh ran a hotle for homosexuals and was found 2001 by Rabbi Shlomo Aver, a longstandg and enthiastic proponent of nversn therapy who for years has argued passnately that nsensual nversn therapy is legimate.

GAY MAN SAYS ‘REVERSAL’ THERAPY DID NOT CHANGE HIM

Illtrative: Natnal-Relig Jews hold a rally outsi the Israeli Supreme Court to prott the Gay Pri Para takg place Jesalem, on June 6, 2019.

“Like Atzat Nefh before , Hosen views homosexualy as a disorr or problem and prents the false pretense that a person n change their sexual orientatn, ” said Gil Friedman, one of the founrs of the Informatn Center for Conversn Therapi Israel.

GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS

“A young relig man who is a homosexual is a state of nflict om the moment he adms his sexual orientatn to himself, ” Friedman said. The first piece on the se is tled “The Battle for Normaly: A Gui for (Self) Therapy for Homosexualy” — a summary of the rearch nducted by Dr.

Van m Aardveg’s termology don’t e close to pictg homosexualy as a legimate, normative, or natural attractn to the same sex, and is difficult to see this text as anythg but extremist, hateful, and anti-homosexual. [Treatment for homosexualy] is like that for other nros and emotnal disorrs: phobias, obssive behavrs, prsn, or other perversns. “The highlight of the workshop is a special psycho-dramatic activy which each participant shar an early memory related to homosexualy, and the whole group participat s reenactment, like a play, ” wr Yochai Greenfeld an acunt published by the Informatn Center for Conversn Therapi Israel.

HOW CHRISTIANS TURNED AGAST GAY CONVERSN THERAPY

ETA gay man ttified Wednday a feral same-sex marriage trial that the "reversal therapy" he unrwent as a teenager to change his sexual orientatn drove him to the brk of suici. Lawyers for two same-sex upl sug to overturn California's gay marriage ban lled 26-year-old Ryan Kendall to the wns stand to monstrate that a person's sexual orientatn nnot ually be changed.

"I was jt as gay as when I started, " he Campbell, a lawyer for the ban's sponsors objected to Kendall beg allowed to ttify, sayg was irrelevant to the legal issu the se.

'CURA GAY': ENTENDA POR QUE TERAPIAS NVERSãO SEXUAL SãO UM EQUíVO

His parents sent him to a private Christian therapist and then a more tensive program n by the Natnal Associatn for Reparative Therapy of his 18 months the program, Kendall said he did not believe his sexual orientatn uld be changed and that hearg om his therapist and his parents that gays were bad people sank him to spair and to the brk of suici.

The oppose mp argu that gays are "born that way, " and th that sexual reorientatn therapy is effective, as well as cel and the latter perspective hs closer to the mark, the science of sexualy supports a more measured stance. There are no verified s of formerly gay people pletely riddg themselv of same-sex attractn, but do appear possible for some people who are predisposed to same-sex attractn to expand their sexual repertoire — velop attractns for oppose-sex partners as well, and even opt for the oppose sex exclively.