Board Thread:Off-topic (OT) Discussion/@comment-28759193-20161109211813/@comment-25155763-20161111203027

I mean guys Trump's vice president vigorously supports Conversion Therapy.

No for those of you that don't know what that is, get ready:  insidious “treatment” that abuses LGBT adults and youth to supposedly eliminate or dramatically reduce their attraction to the same sex or their desire to express a different gender from the gender they were born with.

 The American Psychological Association, The American Medical Association, and 11 other major medical organizations reject conversion therapy because they don’t believe that there is a disorder to “fix,” they don’t believe one can actually change orientation or gender identity and that attempting doing so is dangerous and harmful, particularly to LGBT youth.



   The techniques therapists have used to try to change sexual orientation and gender identity are horrifying. They include inducing nausea, vomiting, or paralysis while showing the patient homoerotic images(PORN); providing electric shocks; using shame to create aversion to same-sex attractions. (The first three techniques listed are physically and psychologically abusive, the fourth is just physical abuse, and the fifth is emotional and psychological abuse.)

 Other techniques include trying to make patients’ behavior more stereotypically feminine or masculine, teaching heterosexual dating skills, using hypnosis to try to redirect desires and arousal.

 For the first time in our presidential history, a major party candidate and a major party support child abuse, even child torture, as part of their platform. That’s not hyperbole, that’s exactly what conversion therapy is. In fact, all known methods of conversion therapy meet the definition of torture under the Geneva Convention’s definition.

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 ^Yup, this is our Vice President.