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Originally Posted by awareness
I'm not feeling up to par today. But I had to present this :
Two Trump-appointed judges on the 11th Circuit recently made a pro-conversion-therapy ruling. In the first of a two-part series, LGBTQ survivors of the practice tell their stories.
On Nov. 20, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down bans on juvenile gay conversion therapy in South Florida. The majority votes in the 2-1 decision came from two Trump-appointed judges, who argued that the therapists’ practicing this mode of therapy—resoundingly condemned by every professional body in the field—were having their freedom of speech violated by being banned from practicing.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/gay-co...ut-its-torture
I find this appalling, harmful, and abusive. |
This wont work at all, just up the suicide rates. Good job, America. On top of the pandemic, you have lgbtq killing themselves. I had a client who was gay, told me his Christian parents sent him to gay conversion therapy when he was sox years old. His therapist asked him insensitive questions like, “why do you like knitting so much”? (His grandmother taught him to knit) “why do you not like the violent games that the other boys are playing?” His response- “It’s not my nature to be violent; I like playing with the girls more, they’re kinder and more creative”. He remembered the exact questions the thp asked him- most of us dont remember therapy sessions when we’re six. This was a traumatic experience and burned into his psyche.