Conversion Therapy Again

This time Web MD has jumped in on the topic of conversion therapy.

Transgender People Pressured on ‘Conversion Therapy’
By Dennis Thompson
August 28, 2019


More than one in 10 transgender people say they've been pressured by a professional counselor to accept their birth sex.

So finds the largest survey to date on the issue.

Nearly 14% of transgender people say that some sort of professional -- a psychologist, counselor or religious advisor -- urged them to identify only with their sex assigned at birth, the survey revealed.

That amounts to more than 180,000 people across the United States who've been potentially subjected to a form of conversion therapy, said lead researcher Dr. Jack Turban. He is a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School, in Boston.

Major medical organizations, including the American Medical Association, oppose such conversion efforts, deeming them ineffective and unethical, Turban said.

When we were trying to pass the ban here in Connecticut we heard from the opposition… it doesn’t happen here.

"State legislators have argued that these attempts to change gender identity don't happen in their state, and they've used that as an argument against passing legislation that would make it illegal to try to change a person's gender identity," Turban said.

The thing is no one advertises that they do conversion therapy it is all word-of-mouth and many times it is not called conversion therapy…

Transgender conversion therapy was most commonly reported from a cluster of western states that include Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah and South Dakota, the survey showed. These efforts also were common in Nevada, Oklahoma, West Virginia and Alaska.

No surprise there, all Bible states.

The bans are not perfect, there are exemptions for religious leader to do their exorcisms. Because of the First Amendment we cannot interfere with religious practices, however if it is preformed by a licensed professional their license can be yanked.

Also once you become an adults you can make your own decisions, if you want to have the trans beat out of you and spend tens of thousands of dollars to try that is your right.

 He added that "research continues to show that shame and rejection drive most of the mental health problems in this population."

It is not gender dysphoria that causes mental health problems but rather the stigma that society imposes upon us that causes our stress. It is the hate and discrimination that is directed toward us that causes the suicides.

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Living a lie and making your living off of other peoples misery and internalized homophobia…

Conversion Therapy Founder Comes Out Publicly as Gay After 20 Years of Leading Homophobic Program
McKrae Game founded Hope for Wholeness, a faith-based conversion therapy program in South Carolina, in 1999
People
By Joelle Goldstein
September 04, 2019

McKrae Game, the man who founded one of the largest conversion therapy programs in the country and led the homophobic organization for 20 years, has come out as gay.
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Two decades after its founding, however, Game — who once vehemently preached that being gay would send someone to hell — has now come out as gay to the world.

His decision to go public with his truth comes a little over two years after he was abruptly fired from the organization that he spent a great deal of his life dedicated to. In those 20 years working for them, Game also wrestled with his true identity.

“I struggled more so trying to deny [my attraction to men] than being able to accept my attractions and say, ‘I am a gay man,'” he said in a recent interview with the Post and Courier. “I was a hot mess for 26 years and I have more peace now than I ever did.”

You have to wonder how many lives he wrecked, how many took their own lives because they couldn’t live with the guilt of being gay, and then you have to wonder how he took a pay check all those years of living a lie.

P.S. Saturday 9 post is done and scheduled for 8 AM tomorrow.