CAMH

Anyone who has been around the trans community long enough has probably heard about CAMH (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health) in Toronto and their focus on reparative/conversion therapy and Dr. Zucker.

Ontario becomes first province to ban 'conversion therapy’ for LGBTQ children
Legislation proposed by NDP’s Cheri DiNovo passes unanimously at Queen’s Park. Health minister says conversion therapy has ‘no place in Ontario.’
Toronto Star
By: Rob Ferguson Queen's Park Bureau
Published on Thu Jun 04 2015

Ontario has passed a landmark law banning so-called “conversion therapy” on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender children and preventing medical practitioners from billing OHIP for it.

The legislation proposed by New Democrat MPP Cheri DiNovo won unanimous support from all three parties at Queen’s Park on Thursday, in time for Pride week, which begins June 19.

It’s the first law of its kind in Canada and goes further than conversion therapy bans in several U.S. states by including protection for the transgender community.

Reparative/conversion therapy is based on “correcting” homosexuality and transgenderism by forcing children to become “straight” what it does in reality is suppress it and as a result suicidal ideologies increase along with depression and self-injuries like cutting.

In the article “Sexology's war on transgender children” on Boing,Boing they have a history of reparative/conversion therapy at CAMH.

To understand the unethical history of anti-transgender reparative therapy, follow the money. The Archives of Sexual Behavior was founded by sexologist Richard Green in 1971, and he made his clinical and editorial goal clear in his first issue: “the prevention of transsexualism.” Green’s team at UCLA was rewarded with funding for this goal. As described in Green’s book The ‘Sissy Boy Syndrome,’ his faction of sexologists basically believes gay people are born that way, but being transgender is a lifestyle choice that can be cured by subjecting young children to anti-transgender reparative therapy. Green’s hand-picked editorial successor Kenneth Zucker has subjected hundreds of children to government-subsidized “therapeutic intervention,” and he uses the Archives to promulgate his views.

Though most gender non-conforming children do not make a gender transition later in life, clinics like Zucker’s at CAMH make money from anxious parents by diagnosing Gender Identity Disorder in children, a disease Zucker and friends created in 1980. To cure it, Zucker developed a version of Green’s clinical protocols: parents must shame or punish feminine boys who play with dolls, make art using pink or purple colors, draw pictures of girls, or seek out girls as playmates.

The American Academy of Pediatrics, American Medical Association, American Psychoanalytic Association, American Psychiatric Association, American Psychological Association, and the National Association of Social Workers all have called for banning reparative/conversion therapy for minors. Additionally, President Obama has called for its ban and a number of states have also banned reparative/conversion therapy for minors.