Therapy to change 'feminine' boy created a troubled man, family says

[RandySF]

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.

A co-worker found him hanging from the fan of his apartment in New Delhi. His family has struggled for years to understand what happened.

"I used to spend so much time thinking, why would he kill himself at the age of 38? It doesn't make any sense to me," said Kirk's sister, Maris Murphy. "What I now think is I don't know how he made it that long."

After Kirk's death, Maris started a search that would uncover a dark family secret. That secret revealed itself during a phone conversation with her older brother Mark, who mentioned his distrust of any kind of therapy.

"Don't you remember all that crap we went through at UCLA?" he asked her. Maris was too young to remember the details, but Mark remembered it vividly as a low point in their lives.



http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/06/07/sissy.boy.experiment/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

[xchrom]

1. Very sad. Nt

[cali]

2. not just sad; outrageous child abuse by both the gov't sponsored

experimental therapy program. Disgusting and his mother is a stupid piece shit and his father beat him mercilessly. fuck them.

[cali]

3. Oh, and the monster who "treated" him, George Rekers

was a founding member of The Family Research Council and has used his nasty experiment with Kirk as evidence that homosexuality can be prevented.

Sick, sick, sick.

[BanzaiBonnie]

4. Child abuse is always tragic, and this...

is so much more than child abuse. It was the intentional destruction of the whole person. I cried.