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Guidance Document Change: Board of Medicine guidance on conversion therapy
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12/11/19  8:38 am
Commenter: Mallory Graydon

Conversion therapy is harmful and should be banned
 

Conversion therapy—discredited attempts to coerce people into conforming to sexual and gender norms rather than embracing their natural selves—is harmful and should be banned. All the credible medical institutions agree that being LGBTQ is not, in and of itself, a disorder and that attempts to "cure" people from these non-diseases might instead harm them. The canard that so-called conversion 'therapies' help anyone should be dismissed as the inversion of reality that they are: Proper care for persons questioning whether they are LGBTQ does not attempt to make them LGBTQ but to help them discover for themselves who they really are. It is coercive conversion therapy that attempts to push people into a pre-determined identity, using shame and guilt that can lead to depression and suicide. Stop legitimizing the quacks. Ban this harmful practice.

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