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n2doc

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Thu Apr 9, 2015, 02:32 AM Apr 2015

White House Says It Supports Efforts To Ban Gay Conversion Therapy

The White House said on Wednesday that it supports efforts to ban therapies aimed at converting gay and transgender minors into heterosexuals.

"Often, this practice is used on minors, who lack the legal authority to make their own medical and mental health decisions," White House adviser Valerie Jarrett said in a statement. "We share your concern about its potentially devastating effects on the lives of transgender as well as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and queer youth."

The White House released that statement in response to a petition calling for a ban that gathered more than 120,000 signatures. The petition was for its part sparked by the suicide of 17-year-old Leelah Alcorn, who wrote on a Tumblr post that her parents had forced her to go to conversion therapy.

Jarrett wrote that science has overwhelmingly demonstrated that conversion therapy hurts gay and transgender minors and that the practice is "neither medically nor ethically appropriate."

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White House Says It Supports Efforts To Ban Gay Conversion Therapy (Original Post) n2doc Apr 2015 OP
These "therapies" are not onlly medically and ethically inappropriate, they are utterly dehumanizing nightscanner59 Apr 2015 #1

nightscanner59

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1. These "therapies" are not onlly medically and ethically inappropriate, they are utterly dehumanizing
Thu Apr 9, 2015, 11:48 AM
Apr 2015

I was subject to just such an "experiment" that I got up and left angrliy from, told my mother never to attempt to take me to that idiot "therapist" again, who first attempted creepily exploratory hands-on prayer I tolerated, but when it became clear this dipshit's interests weren't in my welfare but voyeuristic exploration of my sexual psyche that was to include pants-down "therapy" sessions... lets just suffice to say it was the beginning of the end of my relationship with my parents that didn't ever end well. Both my older brothers picked up on my natural affinity for other males long before I realized what it was.
The evidence is overwhelming that gay and transgender desires are just natural states of being. The "convertors"... well... they have the bible.

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