The American Psychological Association has found that efforts to change sexual orientation can pose critical health risks including, but not limited to, depression, substance abuse, social withdrawal, decreased self-esteem and suicidal thoughts.
I believe that exposing children to these health risks without clear evidence of benefits that outweigh these serious risks is not appropriate. Our young people deserve acceptance, support, and love. To the young people who question their identities, suffer from bullying, or struggle with what it means to come out, today is your day. Your voices have been heard.
Jerry Brown, Governor of California "These practices have no basis in science or medicine and they will now be relegated to the dustbin of quackery. Jerry Brown bans gay-to-straight therapy for minors. By clicking "GO" below, you will be directed to a website operated by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, an independent c 3 entity. By using this site, you agree to our use of cookies. To learn more, please read our Privacy Policy. Accept More Information. Research on the Impacts of Reparative Therapy, Harms Caused by Societal Prejudice In , a task force of the American Psychological Association undertook a thorough review of the existing research on the efficacy of conversion therapy.
American Academy of Pediatrics "Confusion about sexual orientation is not unusual during adolescence. American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy "[T]he association does not consider homosexuality a disorder that requires treatment, and as such, we see no basis for [reparative therapy].
American Psychiatric Association American School Counselor Association "Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and questioning LGBTQ youth often begin to experience self-identification during their pre-adolescent or adolescent years, as do heterosexual youth. National Association of Social Workers "People seek mental health services for many reasons. Christie Signs Bill Banning Gay Conversion Therapy On Minors Kate Brown, Governor of Oregon "There are many things that young people need, but breaking them down based on their sexual or gender identity is not one of them — and in fact, it's inexcusable.
Love conquers hate. Donate Today. Wear your pride this year. Most staffers never met any of the conversion cases during the study period of through , according to research I've done for my new book Masters of Sex. Clinic staffer Lynn Strenkofsky, who organized patient schedules during this period, says she never dealt with any conversion cases.
Marshall and Peggy Shearer, perhaps the clinic's most experienced therapy team in the early s, says they never treated homosexuals and heard virtually nothing about conversion therapy. When the clinic's top associate, Robert Kolodny, asked to see the files and to hear the tape-recordings of these "storybook" cases, Masters refused to show them to him.
Kolodny—who had never seen any conversion cases himself—began to suspect some, if not all, of the conversion cases were not entirely true. When he pressed Masters, it became ever clearer to him that these were at best composite case studies made into single ideal narratives, and at worst they were fabricated.
Eventually Kolodny approached Virginia Johnson privately to express his alarm. She, too, held similar suspicions about Masters' conversion theory, though publicly she supported him. The prospect of public embarrassment, of being exposed as a fraud, greatly upset Johnson, a self-educated therapist who didn't have a college degree and depended largely on her husband's medical expertise. With Johnson's approval, Kolodny spoke to their publisher about a delay, but it came too late in the process.
Johnson said she favored a rewriting and revision of the whole book "to fit within the existing [medical] literature," and feared that Bill simply didn't know what he was talking about.
At worst, she said, "Bill was being creative in those days" in the compiling of the "gay conversion" case studies. Until he died in Masters felt confident their book would be embraced eventually by the medical community, not just by purveyors of religious or political agendas. In the US, research suggests that , adults have undergone such treatment, about half of them as teenagers. At LIA the message was unequivocal: homosexuality meant unhappiness, isolation and death.
Among the first to raise the alarm about its methods was founding member John Evans, who left in after a friend, distraught by his failure to convert to straight, killed himself. Today Conley seems relaxed and loose, attuned to himself and his place in the world, with quick, amused eyes.
But it took effort for him to get to this point. At a small liberal arts college in Arkansas, freed from smalltown bigotries, Conley found himself caught between the tug of his upbringing, on the one hand, and his new freedoms on the other.
He withdrew from church, wore a Radiohead T-shirt, read Dostoevsky and Gertrude Stein and defended evolution in conversations with a fellow student, whom he calls David, while fantasising about how their bodies might feel curled into one another. Instead, David raped Conley in his dorm room later that day.
Conley is gentle on his parents, and in general reluctant to judge anyone involved. Look at who we elected. They married young. In Boy Erased he gives his parents histories. He lets us know that his father grew up watching his own father tie his mother to a chair in order to beat her. Among the ironies of conversion therapies such as LIA is the fact that they are run and managed largely by gay men who have been through the programme themselves, renounced their past and now seek to make others do the same.
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