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

Contents:

• 'WE DON'T NEED FIXG': TEXAS BAT BAN ON GAY NVERSN THERAPY FOR KIDS
• BAN ON GAY NVERSN THERAPY BATED TEXAS LEGISLATURE, BUT NO VOTE TAKEN
• LGBTQ+ TREATMENT CENTERS TEXAS
• WHY IS TEXAS GOP BACKG GAY NVERSN THERAPY?

'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.

BAN ON GAY NVERSN THERAPY BATED TEXAS LEGISLATURE, BUT NO VOTE TAKEN

“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. 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. "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. 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.

LGBTQ+ TREATMENT CENTERS TEXAS

APA stated 1973 that homosexualy was not a mental illns, a ccial tone for LGBTQ equaly. The gay nversn therapy movement lost substantial credibily after a 2009 report om the APA showed there was no evince for the efficy of nversn therapi and the practice is often harmful, says Tom Waidzunas, Temple Universy profsor and thor of "The Straight Le: How the Frge Science of Ex-Gay Therapy Reoriented Sexualy.

Exod Internatnal, the ex-gay Christian anizatn that oversaw queer nversn therapy practic, ceased operatns 2013. The anizatn enuraged people to e out of what they lled "the homosexual liftyle.

Conversn therapy anizatn formerly known as the Natnal Associatn for Rearch and Therapy of Homosexualy, that ed to partner wh Exod Internatnal, has now rebrand to the Alliance for Theraptic Choice and Scientific Integry. ”Yet ’s bt known as “gay nversn therapy, ” the attempt to lsen or rid someone of their attractn to members of the same sex.

WHY IS TEXAS GOP BACKG GAY NVERSN THERAPY?

'We don’t need fixg'In the Texas Legislature’s 173-year history, only six members have openly intified as lbian, gay or bisexual. '""I brg you this bill for all those Texas kids who do have the strength to say, 'Mom, Dad, I'm gay.

Stori of forced "pray away the gay" boot mps and aversn or electroshock treatments have bee unual — though not nonexistent. " Some are tght church and rooted relign, like Alholics Anonymo but for homosexualy. Clients aren't "gay, " they're "same sex attracted, " nversn therapy supporters say.

"Even the practice self has a thoand nam: ex-gay and reparative and retegrative therapy; change unselg; and sexual orientatn change efforts, or s more nocuo acronym, SOCE. It’s spun off whole stutns and all kds of “treatments, ” one-on-one or group, child to adult, voluntary and the methods and monikers are different, the aim is the same — to see a patient’s gay feelgs dwdle or even disappear.