Conversion Therapy Bans Make Good Health Care Illegal

American Thinker ^ | 05/10/2019 | Annie Crawford

[SeekAndFind]

“No one will help us.”

This refrain is echoed in story after story of parents whose child has suddenly announced that they are transgender.

The parent of a teen with Asperger’s grieves that she cannot find “a professional that would consider her diagnosis of ASD” as possibly contributing to her gender dysphoria.

When her daughter declared herself to be a boy, an anonymous parent writing at The Federalist looked for a “therapist who could help her sort out what her gender dysphoria meant.” What was going on in her daughter’s life that might be making her feel disassociated from her body? This mother “quickly discovered that it is nearly impossible to find therapists who do this kind of work.”

Another parent at The Kelsey Coalition laments that "due to the laws prohibiting any exploration of alternative causes of bodily distress … we were unable to find a US-based therapist who can work with our daughter to explore how her OCD, ADHD, same-sex attraction, and peer pressure may be contributing to her sudden desire for a medical transition."

If Conversion Therapy Bans continue to pass in state after state it will soon be impossible for any parent to find a legal therapist who can help their children learn to love and accept their own bodies.

Twenty states have introduced and sixteen states have already passed bills like Minnesota’s pending HF12 which condemns any practice “that seeks to change​ an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity, including efforts to change behaviors​ or gender expressions.” These bans apply even if such practices are voluntarily chosen and follow well-established, evidence-based methods of therapy. 

[VanDeKoik]

Some people want to cut their limbs off so they can be crippled.

Does that mean we need to allow that too?

[G Larry]

Most homosexuals were molested as children.

To ban "conversion therapy" is to ban RAPE therapy.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Some people want to cut their limbs off so they can be crippled.

What he wants to do with his body is none of my business. Just don’t make me pay for it or force me to celebrate it.

[generally]

What would your doctor/shrink say if you went in and said you thought you were a chicken? Or that you were meant to be a chicken, but were stuck with a human body? Would the doctor deal with your mental problem and try to talk some sense into you or would he start giving you chicken hormones?

[ek_hornbeck]

Some people want to cut their limbs off so they can be crippled.

I see absolutely no difference between a "transgender" person and somebody with body integrity identity disorder. The only reason that the psychiatric and medical profession indulges the delusions of the first while trying to dissuade and treat the second is political pressure. BIID's just don't have a lobby to politicize their insanity.

[DuncanWaring]

Whatever happened to the so-called “Constitutionally-protected right to privacy in the doctor-patient relationship”?

Or does that only protect the murder of the unborn?

[DesertRhino]

Wait a minute, no more conversion therapy? Does that mean they’re not going to be taking little boys and making them into little girls anymore? Or is that somehow magically different?

[Truthoverpower]

You can’t ban Speech

You can’t ban the Bible

And you can’t ban Christ

Many many have tried over the centuries of course

[Sergio]

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