In 1973 the American Psychiatric Association (APA) decided to remove homosexuality as a mental disorder from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM). Removal followed a two year campaign Newsweek described as ongoing disruptive, chaotic attacks on psychiatrists and physiologists. Yet throughout these disruptive attacks, no academic papers arose at conferences refuting any research previously done. Eventually onslaughts forced sufficient abstentions, under-votes, and apprehensive responses for a third of APA’s 17,000 plus membership to approve removal.
Next activists targeted leading individual researchers such as Dr. David Reuben to ensure perpetual sanctity for the APA action. No research papers would again arise to confirm initial therapy success rates of 30% to 60 %, substantiating that 7 of 10 homosexuals could eventually walk away from the lifestyle. Persistent activism over 37 years enabled ubiquitous infiltration of academia ensuring pre-ordained theses, approved flexibility in research designs, suitable human data points, and enchanting statistical enhancements. New standards for peer review of articles ensured appropriate design definitions, outcomes, and analytical models.
Psychology and Psychiatry have chosen to relinquish scientific rigor for popular societal and political acclaim. With studies concerning homosexuality freed from objective analysis, advocates for social justice rely upon base antidotal politics to dominate debates.
this is why the women who demanded men not deal with gays like they used to to handle the problem, were totally wrong
oh let them be
they just want to be left alone
they wont bother you
they are just like you and me
they’re nice people
they are harmless
no women, you were wrong
what they did here for a year or two, terrorizing the mental health community, proves that is not correct
normal people don’t do that
nice people don’t do that
point to any other group that has done the same thing for a year or two as an organized campaign of targeted intimidation - there aren’t any
now the women are complaining the trans men perverts are impacting them negatively
NOW we hace to do something
their attitudes towards perverts allowed this slippery slope to occur