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.
Don’t hold your breath. How can there be any doubt that those who mis-rule us are not stupid,but instead, evil. They know what they’re doing— making war on Americans in order to satisfy their power-hungry aims.
Yep they’re evil and the reason we are thus plagued is because we have let go of God. God never comes where not invited. He knows the devil gets a warmer welcome in such a situation, at least until some people wise up.
they are and it should be illegal for giving a child a new gender.....my sister is transgendered and one of the things my family wonder about is whether the fact that from age three till about age thirteen she was on growth hormone to alleviate her not producing it herself. we wonder if it caused the gender confusion later in life. putting children on hormone replacement therapy actually might harm the child because mentally there brain is still forming. it is interesting that the gay community is scared of counselling but is perfectly willing to do hormone replacement on children as young as three.
They already outlawed Conversion Therapy in CA.
Don’t know how the State can prevent a Family from treating their own Children suffering with Mental Illness, but they did it without any Political opposition.
brak thugbama: using the lethal force of government to impose political correctness on psychiatrists, doctors, psychotherapists, sufferers of gender confusion and their parents.
“variations in sexual orientation and gender identity are normal”; see, this is why you should never go to a shrink.
Shrinks are just the dummies who flunked out of medical school and changed majors to psycobable and witch doctorism.
Same as a Phd in Wymins Studies.
Too bad somebody didn’t authorize funds for counseling of Kenyan/Indonesian homosexual affirmative action law school grads who like to make believe they’re President of the United States.
There is so much convolution in this issue - and purposely so - no one can either confirm or refute it.
First, prepubescent children are NOT SEXUAL, despite what Planned Barrenhood and other Marxist Kinsey front groups would have us believe. If they are acting sexually, they’ve been raped.
If your talking about a “child” who identifies as “gay,” then you are talking about a 14, 15, or 16 year old. They are still in development and likely were talked into this identity by strategically placed indoctrination organizations embedded in schools.
They say the cis-terhood is evil.
What shrank was “science.”
Preteens CAN have abnormal ideas of gender identity.
WH is agin minors being allowed to identify as their non-biological gender? Colour me stunned.
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