we need to be talking about this (∩︵∩)
Sign the petition for Leelah’s Law:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/enact-leelahs-law-ban-all-lgbtq-conversion-therapy/QPbYj38G
(the original Change.org petition got 300K+ signatures, but we need to get THIS petition to 100k to have it reviewed by the White House)
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http://imfromdriftwood.com/
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FURTHER READING
Conversion therapy has vicious roots. Homosexuality and the death penalty in colonial america
http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1061&context=englishfacpubs
The facts about changing sexual orientation/GID
http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/faculty_sites/rainbow/html/facts_changing.html
NCLR’s #BornPerfect campaign
http://www.nclrights.org/explore-the-issues/bornperfect/
SPLC’s redux on NARTH and Nicolosi
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2012/spring/queer-science
Robert Spitzer retracts his study
http://www.advocate.com/news/daily-news/2012/04/11/psychiatrist-retracts-2001-claim-exgay-programs-can-work
APA study on effects of conversion therapy
http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/2002-01066-003
CDC Report on LGBT Youth
http://www.cdc.gov/lgbthealth/youth.htm
SUMMARY
In this episode of Sex+, Laci gives an overview to conversion therapy (AKA reparative therapy, gay cure, and pray the gay away). In section 1, she talks about the methods that therapists will use to attempt to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. In section 2, she discusses conversion therapy’s legal, scientific, and moral failings. In section 3, she closes with a rumination on how we should respond to these issues and the damaging consequences if we don’t.
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