We all know “conversion therapy” doesn’t actually achieve any kind of “conversion” and is in fact not even “therapy.” What it does do is mess people up, drive them to further harmful behavior, and line the pockets of a bunch of snake oil phony-doctors.
It’s been this way for literally decades, dating back to the days when you could supposedly “cure” homosexuality by riding a bicycle or having monkey testicles implanted in your body. Given the ridiculous history of this kind of abuse, it’s only natural that it should be banned along with drilling holes in the skull, amateur appendectomies, and using heroin for weight loss.
Out Representative Brian Sims, currently serving as in Pennsylvania (and in our fantasies, as president in 2020) just introduced a bill to ban the practice in his state. It’s about time, since every major medical organization in the country has taken a stand against it. In fact, he’s joined by the APA in putting forth his new legislation.
Forcing people into the discredited procedures can lead to sixfold increase in depression and ninefold increase in suicide ideation, Sims points out. There’s just no possible defense for this terrible anti-scientific abuse.
How about we take this to the next level?
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The best defense that anti-gay groups can muster is that parents should have authority to decide on medical treatments for their children. The only response to that: look, if you think that you need to increase your child’s risk of suicidal ideation by a factor of nine, you shouldn’t be allowed to have children at all.
Watch him discuss the move below:
Gary_Gans
He’s very attractive, politically aware, and articulate. Please tell me that he’s single!
Herman75
The only conversion involves large sums of cash being transferred from the parents’ pockets to the coffers of whatever church or medical quack is running the outfit, such as the crazy Catholic group Antonin Scalia’s son was involved with.
ErikO
It’s already basically banned in the state of Pennsylvania. Brian Sims is not going to become President in 2020 and he’s your typical narcissistic politician that only cares about himself and his political career first and foremost. He’s also the biggest queen and drama queen ever; but he opens up his mouth and a purse flies out! lol
MaxTaste
Sounds like he dumped you. I can see why.
ErikO
LMAO nope Max Taste. I have better taste than Sims. I prefer men, not girls like him.
James Hart
Sims is anti-choice. If someone wants to willingly go to conversion therapy, then they should have the choice. He’s pro-choice on abortion, but not conversion therapy? He’s clearly trying to impose his values on others, much like the Evangelicals. Who would’ve thought the “open-minded” gay guy was into discriminating against people who don’t think the way he does? I smell a hypocrite.
dwes09
Abortion works and is safe (considerably safer than carrying a fetus to term actually). Conversion therapy does not work, and is not safe (perhaps you misunderstood the references to increased instance of depression and suicide ideation). You are either dissembling to promote a specific (and only tangential) agenda, or are not particularly bright.