#conversation therapy

[feckcops]

Psychology Today’s conversion therapy problem

“In 1992, religiously-motivated conversion therapist Joseph Nicolosi founded the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality. NARTH provided a ‘clinical’ hub for the ex-gay movement, and was a melting pot of pseudoscience ...

“In 2014, after realizing they’d fundamentally (eh, get it?) failed to convince the public that they were anything other than ardent homophobes, and that science had long since moved on to realized that being gay is not only non-pathological, but a natural part of human diversity, NARTH rebranded under the Association for Therapeutic Choice and Scientific Integrity. Like so much of the anti-LGBT, pronatalist far-right, ACTSI refocused on transgender people as part of a political strategy shift to ‘separating the T from LGBT’ ...

“One of the pivotal strategies during the early days of NARTH, was to focus on the specific language of ‘same-sex attraction’ ... Conversion Therapists wanted to inculcate the public with the idea that SSA was a test of one’s moral or religious convictions, but not a part of a person’s innate sexuality ...

"A cursory search of Google’s index of the site shows an alarmingly high rate of results for SSA ... [For mentions of] ‘sexual brokenness’, a term that comes from evangelical Christianity to describe having normal sexual feelings, you get 1,300 results, the overwhelming majority of which are in the United States. Among these results includes Joseph Nicolosi’s son. David Pickup, an LMFT who deals exclusively in the empirically disproven notion that ‘same sex attraction’ is the result of trauma and sexual abuse, is also listed on Psychology Today. Pickup has the distinction of being one of the more prolific purveyors of alleged ‘expert’ testimony on behalf of states like Florida and his home state of Texas. 

“Perhaps just as disturbingly, it is host to a range of ‘Gender Exploratory Therapists’ like Lisa Marchiano, the original author of ‘Outbreak: On Transgender Teens and Psychic Epidemics’, an absolute nonsense paper which argues that the apparent rise in transgender youth is due to what Jungian psychoanalysts refer to as the ‘collective unconscious’ after too much LSD.”

#trans conversion therapy #gay conversation therapy #conversation therapy #therapy #therapists #psychology #psychologists #pseudoscience #christian evangelicals #christian fundamentalists #far right #conservatives #trans genocide #transphobia #transgender #trans #gender #gay #sexuality #usa

[starwarsrefs]

Trans kids: What gender-exploratory therapy is really about.

#slate actually being useful #Gender-exploratory therapy #geta #conversation therapy #transphobia #trans rights #protect trans kids

[ttpd-chair]

Washington State’s ban on conversion therapy of minors stands! 🏳️‍🌈🎉🥳 (Gift link posted on 12/11/23)

#lgbtq #nyt #article #conversation therapy #scotus #us politics

[ayeforscotland]

Scotland - Ban Conversion Therapy Consultation

Scotland is currently consulting the public on banning conversion therapy. Unfortunately, it is not going well. The consultation has been brigaded by transphobes and it needs a lot submissions in support.

The Equality Network, who we did the Hollow Knight fundraiser for, has put together a guide on how to fill in the consultation form.

There is nothing in the consultation which limits the scope of who can submit their thoughts.

Please consider filling this in and help push to end conversion therapy in Scotland.

#AyeforScotland #Scottish politics #end conversion therapy

[genderkoolaid]

from The Trevor Project's 2024 U.S. National Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Young People

#m. #suicide tw #conversion therapy tw

[thetruecthulhu9]

We’ve got her on video, so when she falls through we got fuel for the fire. Wonder if truss’ lies will outnumber Boris’

#stonewall #liz truss #conversation therapy #uk politics #british politics #lgbtq+

[groovyfags]

Religious queers are holy and loved

Religious queers are not sad or misguided or in need of saving

Your own issues with (almost always Christian) religious trauma do not give you a key to lash out laterally at religious queers or assume they're being hurt or abused by their beliefs

#cosmo talks #this is not to say religious abuse doesnt happen to queers i myself have been put through conversion therapy #but its also NOT your place to assume all religious queers are abused by their religion

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 273

You know what? We need more Good parents Fentons. 

And you know what else? Technically, Jack helped Danny defeat Pariah via the use of the Ecto-Skeleton. And like, that’s his son, his baby boy. Sure Danny is and has always been a mommy’s boy, but it doesn’t change that fact. They’re both already feeling horrible about the fact they could have hurt him, they could have hurt their son- they have hurt their son, killed him with their inaction and never again. 

So when these oversized jello-eyeballs try to insist that their baby, their precious baby boy, take a crown? Become a king when he’s not even out of highschool, when he doesn’t want it? No. Hell no! That is his Danny-o, his baby boy who was terrified of his own parents! 

Which is how Jack, despite technically still being alive even if so-very ecto-contaminated, became the Ghost King. 

And for some reason there’s several ghosts rather happy about this- oh, these are his Danny-O’s ghost-parents? Not-ghost parents seeing as some of them have never been anything but a realm denizen? That’s really fascinating- y’know what, want some fudge and we can exchange childcare- Maddie dear come over and meet our co-parents apparently!  

Now it’s not all easy, but they’re trying their best, and that’s all that can be asked. 

…

Which is perhaps why it’s so exasperating- or as Maddie would put it, downright infuriating- that it is now, almost an entire year and a half later that the Heroes finally arrive to investigate. Well, at least he has plenty of fudge since it’s almost time for the council meeting. 

#DCxDP #DPxDC #Prompts #Ghost King Jack #Jack is never picking up a gun again #Why yes they did have a one-night stand with Constantine before #The fentons adopt Ellie as soon as they can which also ends with some conversations with Vlad #Lots of conversations & therapy and Y E A H #Jack is like an unmovable object and Danny is like an unstoppable force #Dan gets snatched up the moment he goes back in time from his timeline #He has no clue wtf to do because it’s Not Fair that Danny gets this #That he gets his parents- that he gets acceptance #Dan doesn’t realize until the whole Fentom Family (& Vlad) hugs him that he realizes he can #Jordan is very overprotective of his second chance at family thanks to trauma #Somehow him and Vlad get on well together- probably the villain-leaning habits #GIW had a complete info blackout on Amity to the point they erased the existence of the city #Hence why it took so long for the heroes to find out #Eventually via Deadman after he disappears for a bit & returns telling them there’s a new king & everyone #is getting little information packets on new rules & getting their paperwork taken care of #Pretty much getting visa (Sp?) cards on what they’re doing in the living world

[mapsontheweb]

Countries where "conversion therapy" is still legal, 2023.

#maps #statista #conversion therapy #2023

[gay-otlc]

Fucking hate when queer people talk about transhets like "Ew why would anyone choose to be straight haha" I chose to be straight and I would choose to be straight again and again and again and again, fuck you.

#but if you say you would choose to be straight you're a homophobe and *checks notes* you probably endorse conversion therapy #also to clarify some wording- ig i didn't *choose* to be straight because i didn't choose to be trans #but i chose to label myself as straight instead of forcing myself to be a lesbian and it was a fucking good decision #transhet

[canthandlethishit]

tim: the longest lasting, most stable relationship I’ve ever had is with depression

jason: mine’s spite

dick: I meant like romantic relationships but go on

#just a 2am type of conversation about love and shit turned group therapy #idk whats dick’s longest most stable ‘relationship’ is like grief? winning. great hair. guilt #eldest daughter syndrome #tim drake #jason todd #dick grayson #red robin #red hood #nightwing #incorrect quotes #dc incorrect quotes #batfam incorrect quotes

[vamprlestat]

hey hozier moots come here he’s such a clown @hookedhobbies @lifemod17 @tonguetyd

source

#‘best of luck to you’ 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️ #i do require financial compensation andrew #i almost lost a pair of converse to the mud #do you know how hard it was to clean them #also therapy bills #i’m sending those to you #hozier #m speaks

[ayeforscotland]

You're going to hear a certain (Tory) contingent celebrating that they've 'Banned conversion therapy' but unfortunately the legislation including a 'consent clause' which makes it hugely ineffective. Nobody 'volunteers' for conversion therapy.

#ayeforscotland #british politics #uk politics #conversion therapy

[intotheelliwoods]

Why yes I have thought about the sad implications this can mean for the Peepaw multiverse. Why no, no I do not think I will draw those horrors (for now...) but here you go. Take some sillies instead <3

Want to see what happens when they wander around the multiverse? Check out the #hug saga tag!

#poptart huggy leo conversion therapy #he will become a huggy leo!!!!!!!!!! #2 arms left #rottmnt #peepaw multiverse #rise leo #hug saga

[uncanny-tranny]

The first mistake I see people make is assuming there are completely "nonviolent" ways to be transphobic. It seems like some people conceptualize transphobia as being either violent (which is always physical in some way) or nonviolent (which is "simple" emotional, verbal, or psychological abuse)

It seems, also, that people presume that when somebody has "noble" intentions for their transphobia - "I'm trying to save you!" for instance - it is suddenly nonviolent. Consider, though, how a transphobe would "save" a trans person. Would they allow that person to exist unadulterated (including being able to transition), or would they prefer to put them through conversion therapy, or revoke their access to bodily autonomy, or force them to have children, or anything that will prevent them from transition or even identifying as trans or otherwise tying them down with the obligations that prevent transition or identifying as trans?

There is no true "nonviolent" way to be transphobic because being transphobic relies on denying one the ability to autonomy and personhood. Fundamentally, even the transphobes who "want to save us" only do so in their own self-interest to save them from the horror of knowing that more people than they are alive and thriving.

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #transphobia #transphobia tw #it's just very frustrating when i see people act as though some transphobia is more acceptable than other forms... #...simply because it isn't overt with how much it wants trans people eradicated... #...transphobes will do whatever it takes both for their comfort and also to wipe the world clean of trans people #in some cases it looks like infantilism ('youre so young! poor thing you're being MANIPULATED😭') or... #...it could look like outright cut-and-dry violence (conversion therapy or physical abuse). it all depends on the situation... #...what stays the same is the sheer level of hatred and scorn for trans people and the trans condition... #...and it is in that hatred and scorn that you find that ALL forms of transphobia are united... #...so it is just as important to combat ALL forms of transphobia #abuse #abuse tw #abuse mention tw

[cacodaemonia]

From the short article:

When we think of conversion therapy, we usually think of right-wing religious groups trying to "cure" people of queerness. Some asexual people encounter this type of conversion therapy. Most encounter something different—less religious and more medicalized. Medicalized conversion therapy often involves treating asexuality (or feelings of low/no sexual interest) as the result of hormone imbalances, trauma, or mental health issues. Treating asexuality as a medical issue is a form of conversion therapy.

#yuuup #ace stuff #queer stuff #asexuality #asexual #ace #conversion therapy