Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act of 2017

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Sunain
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Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act of 2017

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A bill was introduced this week that would ban the practice of “conversion therapy” which claim to be able to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity.
Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act of 2017
The Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act of 2017 was introduced Tuesday by Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), along with Sens. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.). About 70 other members of Congress, all Democrats, have said they support the bill, which would allow the Federal Trade Commission to classify conversion therapy and its practitioners as fraudulent.

“The bill is very simple,” Lieu told The Washington Post. “It says it is fraud if you treat someone for a condition that doesn’t exist and there’s no medical condition known as being gay. LGBTQ people were born perfect; there is nothing to treat them for. And by calling this what it should be, which is fraud, it would effectively shut down most of the organizations.”

Conversion therapy, also referred to as “reparative therapy” or “ex-gay therapy,” purports to be able to change a person’s sexual orientation. Highly controversial, the practice has been decried by dozens of mental health, medical and LGBT rights groups as harmful and misleading. Nevertheless, very few states have passed legislation banning it.

Such efforts emerged as far back as the mid-19th century, when being gay was viewed as “either a criminal act or a medical problem, or both,” according to a 2009 report by the American Psychological Association. In 1952, homosexuality was included as a mental illness in the first edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (better known as the DSM), and a variety of approaches to changing one’s sexual orientation was born.

Some therapists used electric shock treatments or induced nausea, vomiting or even paralysis when their patients had “same-sex erotic” thoughts. Other individuals were told to wear a rubber band around their wrist, snapping it whenever he or she was attracted to a member of the same sex. In 1965, Time magazine ran an article with the headline “Homosexuals Can Be Cured.” In it, professor and psychiatrist Samuel Hadden claimed to have successfully changed the sexual preferences of gay males who participated in group psychotherapy.
The LDS church's website states: "While shifts in sexuality can and do occur for some people, it is unethical to focus professional treatment on an assumption that a change in sexual orientation will or must occur. Again, the individual has the right to define the desired outcome."
https://mormonandgay.lds.org/articles/s ... ional-help

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The article completely missed the therapies that work now, hmm, how did that happen?

Sunain
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JohnnyL wrote: April 29th, 2017, 8:26 am The article completely missed the therapies that work now, hmm, how did that happen?
Don't want people to know that it's possible to become normal again!

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Sunain wrote: April 29th, 2017, 4:07 pm
JohnnyL wrote: April 29th, 2017, 8:26 am The article completely missed the therapies that work now, hmm, how did that happen?
Don't want people to know that it's possible to become normal again!
Seems to be the case--at least that's what all kinds of people on those websites about people who used "x" or "y" therapy to overcome it say.

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