Members of the LGBTQ+ community are met with violence of all forms, some instances can even lead to death. Conversion therapy is an extreme measure taken to change a natural part of human nature and can result in long lasting detrimental effects for those who undergo it.
Many kids realize that they fall somewhere on the LGBTQ+ spectrum and risk the possibility of being put in danger by parents, especially those “affiliated with a Christian denomination”(4.4). While, “the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its diagnostic manual”(5.4), many still believe that homosexuality is unnatural AND MAKE attempts to “heal” people. The idea that people can be healed comes from “the concept that an individual can change their sexual …show more content…
In a survey taken by ex-gay survivors, one “reported self-hatred, isolation, depression, and flashbacks enduring long after therapy was concluded”(4.1). The practice is “neither medically nor ethically appropriate and can cause substantial harm”(3.1). On top of being medically disproven, “research suggests that treatment can worsen feelings of self-hatred and anxiety”(3.2). Those close to the victim are just as capable as the therapists that conduct anti-gay therapy. In the case of Sam Brinton, his therapist and parents used an isolation tactic to make him believe that “he was the only living gay person in the world and that the government had killed all the other gay children”(6.3). As a result, Brinton joined a support group that “began with ten members but eight have since taken their life”(6.6). Some have been fortunate enough to leave which is “an indication that many people found the treatment too harmful to continue”(3.5). It is a stretch to say that anything good can come out of “conversion therapy” but survivors have reported that it “helped them come out of the closet, feel less alone, leave religion, or meet a same-sex
Many kids realize that they fall somewhere on the LGBTQ+ spectrum and risk the possibility of being put in danger by parents, especially those “affiliated with a Christian denomination”(4.4). While, “the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its diagnostic manual”(5.4), many still believe that homosexuality is unnatural AND MAKE attempts to “heal” people. The idea that people can be healed comes from “the concept that an individual can change their sexual …show more content…
In a survey taken by ex-gay survivors, one “reported self-hatred, isolation, depression, and flashbacks enduring long after therapy was concluded”(4.1). The practice is “neither medically nor ethically appropriate and can cause substantial harm”(3.1). On top of being medically disproven, “research suggests that treatment can worsen feelings of self-hatred and anxiety”(3.2). Those close to the victim are just as capable as the therapists that conduct anti-gay therapy. In the case of Sam Brinton, his therapist and parents used an isolation tactic to make him believe that “he was the only living gay person in the world and that the government had killed all the other gay children”(6.3). As a result, Brinton joined a support group that “began with ten members but eight have since taken their life”(6.6). Some have been fortunate enough to leave which is “an indication that many people found the treatment too harmful to continue”(3.5). It is a stretch to say that anything good can come out of “conversion therapy” but survivors have reported that it “helped them come out of the closet, feel less alone, leave religion, or meet a same-sex