Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
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Department of Health Professions
 
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Board of Medicine
 
Guidance Document Change: Board of Medicine guidance on conversion therapy
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12/10/19  2:56 pm
Commenter: James B Williams, Federal Government

Opposition to Guidance Document
 

Removing the responsibility for the guidance of children from their parents is both wrong and ill-advised.  As to the wrongfulness of this guidance document, the primary responsibility for guiding and raising children resides fundamentally with parents, except in the most egregious cases of parental misconduct.  Parents are not perfect in their exercise of these responsibilities, but their track record is far better than the record of governments in exercising this most fundamental duty.  As to being ill-advised, the abysmal record of the psychiatric and psychological "healing professions" has recently and again been exposed by Anne Harrington's Mind Fixers, a book that complements earlier work documenting the scientific fraudulence and mental and moral degeneracy of the dominant wings of psychiatry and psychology, as documented by James Q. Wilson (in many articles and books), Philip Rieff (The Triumph of the Therapeutic), G.E. Zuriff ("Medicalizing Character"), and Edith Kurzweil (The Freudians).  No public policy should be based on the recommendations of those who have been wrong on major issue after major issue.

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