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Guidance Document Change: Board of Medicine guidance on conversion therapy
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12/11/19  5:27 pm
Commenter: Tom Field

Conversion Therapy Is Torture
 

The techniques used in so-called "conversion therapy" amount to torture.  Moreover, these techniques are ineffective, because sexual orientation is inborn -- like being left or right-handed.  One can force people to write with their right hand, but that does not make them right-handed, which is why we no longer force lefties to write with their right hand.

Let's stop trying to force people to be something they are not.

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