We see it all the time where Republicans are pushing bill to prevent trans children from transitioning, meanwhile the Democrats are pushing bills to ban conversion therapy.
I was reading post on Facebook when I came across a post about the “UCLA Sissy Boy experiment” and it raised my curiosity so I googled it and found the research paper on the experiment.
This study demonstrated reinforcement control over pronounced feminine behaviors in a male child who had been psychologically evaluated as manifesting "childhood crossgender identity". The clinical history of the subject paralleled the retrospective reports of adult transsexuals, including (a) cross-gender clothing preferences, (b) actual or imaginal use of cosmetic articles, (c) feminine behavior mannerisms, (d) aversion to masculine activities, coupled with preference for girl playmates and feminine activities, (e) preference for female role, (f) feminine voice inflection and predominantly feminine content in speech, and (g) verbal statements about the desire or preference to be a girl. The subject was treated sequentially in the clinic and home environments by his mother, trained to be his therapist. The mother was taught to reinforce masculine behaviors and to extinguish feminine behaviors, by using social reinforcement in the clinic and a token reinforcement procedure in the home. During this treatment, his feminine behaviors sharply decreased and masculine behavior increased. The treatment effects were found to be largely response-specific and stimulus-specific; consequently, it was necessary to strengthen more than one masculine behavior and weaken several feminine behaviors, in both clinic and home settings. A multiple-baseline intrasubject design was used to ensure both replication and identification of relevant treatment variables. Follow-up data three years after the treatment began suggests that the boy's sex-typed behaviors have become normalized. This study suggests a preliminary step toward correcting pathological sex-role development in boys, which may provide a basis for the primary prevention of adult transsexualism or similar adult sex-role deviation.So what did he do to the children to make them straight?
Oh by the way the research was… “supported by United States Public Health Service Research Grant 21803 OlAl from the National Institute of Mental Health.”
RESULTSIn a CNN article they write about what happen to “Kraig.”
The treatment results on Kraig may be summarized as follows. Kraig's sex-typed behaviors in the clinic were strongly controlled by his mother's attention; his mother was trained to use her attention successfully in a therapeutic manner, so as to decrease feminine and increase masculine behaviors in the clinic. More than one feminine behavior had to be suppressed and more than one masculine behavior increased. Similarly, it was necessary to treat his behavior in more than one environment in order to observe the generalized change across situations found in the follow-up reports. When differential reinforcement was discontinued early in the treatment, Kraig quickly reverted to feminine behavior. With the continuation of treatment, the change in Kraig's behavior became more permanent. Follow-up data 3 yr after the treatment began suggest that his sex-typed behaviors have become normalized. Since we treated Kraig first in the clinic and subsequently in the home, the results are presented separately by setting.
Therapy to change 'feminine' boy created a troubled man, family saysYes that’s right, Kraig was Kirk… the young man who took his own life.
AC360
By Scott Bronstein and Jessi Joseph, CNN
June 10, 2011
Los Angeles (CNN) -- Kirk Andrew Murphy seemed to have everything to live for.
He put himself through school. He had a successful 8-year career in the Air Force. After the service, he landed a high profile position with an American finance company in India.
But in 2003 at age 38, Kirk Murphy took his own life.
[…]
"Well, I was becoming a little concerned, I guess, when he was playing with dolls and stuff," she said. "Playing with the girls' toys, and probably picking up little effeminate, well, like stroking the hair, the long hair and stuff. It just bothered me that maybe he was picking up maybe too many feminine traits." She said it bothered her because she wanted Kirk to grow up and have "a normal life."
[…]
The doctor was on TV that day, recruiting boys for a government-funded program at the University of California, Los Angeles.
"Well, him being the expert, I thought, maybe I should take Kirk in," said Kaytee Murphy. "In other words, nip it in the bud, before it got started any further."
[…]
Kaytee Murphy took Kirk to UCLA, where he was treated largely by George A. Rekers, a doctoral student at the time.
In Rekers' study documenting his experimental therapy (PDF), he writes about a boy he calls "Kraig." Another UCLA gender researcher confirmed that "Kraig" was a pseudonym for Kirk.
The study, later published in an academic journal, concludes that after therapy, "Kraig's" feminine behavior was gone and he became "indistinguishable from any other boy.
Oh so what happened to the doctoral student George A. Rekers?
Why he became the a founding member of the Family Research Council and was on the Board of NARTH!
Yup the Family Research Council the same anti-LGBTQ organizations that is working with Trump to pick anti-LGBTQ federal judges!
And what happened to Rekers?
According to LGBTQ Nation…
In May 2010, Rekers was exposed for vacationing with a 20 year-old gay escort he met online at RentBoy.com.
After the scandal broke, Rekers resigned from NARTH. And the Family Research Council said in a statement they hadn’t had contact with Rekers in “over a decade.”
In another article they mention another study subject.
UCLA study tried to change children’s gender identity starting in the 1960s, say two educatorsI wonder how many lives were affected by the homophobic research?
Orange County Register
By Susan Christian Goulding
November 19, 2019
Karl Bryant had no idea he was the main character in someone else’s book. He discovered his biography in the late 1980s while poking around a San Francisco bookstore.
Jarringly, the tome was titled, “The ‘Sissy Boy Syndrome’ and the Development of Homosexuality.” But it was the author’s name that caught Bryant’s attention: Richard Green, a psychiatrist who evaluated him for 15 years at UCLA’s Gender Identity Research Clinic.
“Sure enough, there I was,” Bryant said.
A UC Irvine seminar held Nov. 12 brought together Bryant and another subject of the clinic’s three-decade study. Sé Shay Sullivan and Bryant knew about each other but had never met in person.
Both call themselves “survivors” of what they consider harmful research that left them feeling shame and humiliation with each session.
Bryant, a professor of sociology and women’s studies at SUNY New Paltz University in New York, identifies as gay. Sullivan, a carpenter who teaches in the sociology department at Gavilan College in Gilroy, identifies as gender fluid. Both are now 57.
Eight years ago, Sullivan, who uses gender-neutral pronouns, requested files on their case from UCLA. Sullivan received a 68-page transcript of doctor-patient interviews that now seem misguided and insensitive.
This study was done in the thirties, forties, fifties, sixties and early seventies just around the time the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male was uncovered.
When the study was started in the 1930s there was no treatment for syphilis but when penicillin was discovered they didn’t treat any of the men taking part in the research project.
I was part of a team that received a grant to study HIV/AIDS in 2009 in the transgender population around the greater Hartford area (We gave the study the cute name Transgender Regional Area Network Survey (T.R.A.N.S.)).
I had to be certified to work with human subjects and go before an Institute Review Board (IRB) before we could do our research.
Will the NIH policies stop research abuse… no. But it should help to reduce the abuse.
No comments:
Post a Comment