Posted on 10/15/2015 6:38:35 PM PDT by markomalley
White House officials pushed to ban conversion therapy for LGBT youths, pointing to new findings that debunk the therapy.
A ban on the conversion therapy for minors was introduced in Congress on Thursday, following a report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
"The science rebukes this so-called practice and so do we," White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett told reporters on a call Thursday.
The report from the administration includes a consensus from an expert panel held by the American Psychological Association earlier this summer.
The panel found that variations in "sexual orientation and gender identity are normal, and that conversion therapies or other efforts to change sexual orientation or gender identity are not effective, are harmful and are not appropriate therapeutic practices."
It added that there is limited research on conversion therapy for minors, but none of the research available proves that such interventions can alter a child's gender identity or sexual orientation.
The report also referred to prior findings from the American Psychological Association and American Psychiatric Association that such therapy could be harmful.
The report goes into existing efforts to eliminate conversion therapy.
Administration officials, when asked about whether such a ban would undermine religious liberty, concede that the issue could be controversial.
"We focused heavily on the well-being of children," said Elliot Kennedy, special expert for LGBT affairs for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
Jarrett said the administration's focus is on banning conversion for youth, saying that adults are able to make their own decisions.
Will they put a ban on trying to convert kids into homosexuals.. especially in schools?
pedophiles everywhere are happy the Left is against this type of therapy!
Article states "The report also referred to prior findings from the American Psychological Association and American Psychiatric Association that such therapy could be harmful."So just talking about their gender conflicts with the 'wrong' therapist is harmful, but drastic and reversible surgery is perfectly ok, with very little risk of harm???
This is worse science than climate alarmism!
Great, then they’ll quit advocating for homosexuality in our schools?
Excellent!
They don’t mind trawling on our campuses, but dare try to bring one back over to our side and that’s a mortal sin.
but drastic and reversible surgery is perfectly ok, with very little risk of harm???
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But after they are adults, they can make up their own mind.
I would vote for that. I am nostalgic and just plain old fashion.
Of course, “conversion therapy” is the gay movement’s name for it. It’s “reparative therapy,” and sometimes it “works,” and sometimes it doesn’t, like a lot things.
The Democrats have their promises to keep to their glbt constituents. You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours.
Worthless damned muslim POS.
Who is she to make policy about anything?
Crawl back into your burkha, you ugly hog.
I will be so damned glad when this bunch of muslim lowlifes are out of the White House!
Why, why, why, do we keep tolerating the treasonous pieces of excrement?
It is okay for kids to explore homosexual tendencies because it is normal but heterosexual tendencies is not. Think about it, a psychiatrist suggests that heterosexual kids “explore their sexuality” by experimenting with homosexuality but the psychiatrist cannot say to homosexual kids that should “explore their sexuality” by exploring their heterosexuality.
oh bitter lol. that would be the place to undo it then
“Science” has turned into so much political blather today. Without any regard to a God of truth, science doesn’t care about being true either. Chicken entrail staring might be truer in some cases today. We are living on the science that has managed to keep on existing. A new Dark Ages looms if national repentance does not forfend.
Follow the money. The Democrats give billions of our tax dollars to all their pet projects which included lgtb, black radicals, Planned Parenthood, feminists, illegal aliens, and global warming. This is how they come up with all the “studies” by their scientists and experts. Remember the old cigarette companies—they had their own scientists on the payroll who came to the conclusions that the cigarette companies wanted them to.
The Democrats party has fundamentally transformed America. Obama may have lied about other things but he didn’t lie about that. The majority of voters were too dumb to realize that the transformation would be a bad thing.
They’re going to likely end up with their backs clawed to shreds.
Oh nooooooooooooooooo the counseling must all go ONE WAY! You think the devil is going to agree to any detente?
You are right, the glbt drive a hard bargain. They want nothing less than changing God’s natural order. They are making more and more demands and becoming more outlandish even demanding the removal of the words man, woman, he and she from the language. There has never been anything so extreme in history. Ancient Rome was tame compared to this.
This is God warning people “Hello! Here’s what it looks like when you tell Me to take a permanent vacation!”
Consistent with enemy islamism.
Agreed...
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