'We don't need fixg': Texas bat ban on gay nversn therapy for kids

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AUSTIN — Texas lawmakers bated whether to ban gay nversn therapy for mors on Wednday, the first time state policians have formally...

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'WE DON'T NEED FIXG': TEXAS BAT BAN ON GAY NVERSN THERAPY FOR KIDS

By At CheathamReportg TexasWh gay marriage now a nstutnal right and the stris ma LGBTQ+ acceptance Amerin society, might be hard for some to image that jt 50 years ago, homosexualy was still nsired a mental illns. It took until 1973 for the Amerin Psychologil Associatn to remove homosexualy om s list of mental disorrs. Shurka c a theoretil mol that says there is no such thg as LGBTQ and everyone is nately heterosexual – that homosexualy is ed by childhood trmas.

“Very simply, if you take a gay person, brg them to therapy, and heal them of whatever their trma was their childhood, they would naturally overe their same-sex attractn and beg to feel attractn to the oppose sex.

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I uld have iends, but I uldn’t talk to iends who were gay-affirmg.

Essentially, the ls affirmatn Galloway received, the more likely he’d accept the homophobic ias projected onto him. "Mean Girls" actor Daniel Franze, 44, recently told Page Six that he cid to try nversn therapy when he was 21 bee of his own ternalized homophobia.

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"I went to one-on-one therapy ssns wh a person who was tryg to make me pray the gay away and alienate all my alli, " Franze said. Rearch has shown nversn therapy primarily tends to be effective and harmful, cludg a 2014 study om the Journal of Counselg Psychology and a 2013 study om Journal of Homosexualy.

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In 1899, German psychiatrist Albert von Schrenck-Notzg claimed he turned a gay man straight through "45 hypnosis ssns and a few trips to a brothel, " acrdg to, kickg off the phenomenon of nversn therapy. The APA classified "homosexualy" as a "socpathic personaly disturbance, when published s first edn of the Diagnostic and Statistil Manual 1952. APA stated 1973 that homosexualy was not a mental illns, a ccial tone for LGBTQ equaly.

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