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This post!! Unintended consequences of ‘conversion therapy’ ban, So many same sex attracted young people who are uncomfortable, or who have other problems, are going to be wrongfully affirmed as ‘trans’.

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11 days ago

Laws banning “conversion therapies”: how, in the name of fighting conversion, the LGBTQIA+ lobby sacrifices young gay men and lesbians on the altar of gender ideology In your view, how many countries have adopted a national law banning “conversion therapies”? A quick search identifies about fifteen. Among these 15 countries, all of them conflate sexual orientation and gender identity within the same legal text. These laws are often presented as legitimate protection against attempts to “convert” homosexual or bisexual people into heterosexual people. The addition of gender identity is presented as a simple logical extension of that protection. Yet this conflation raises a major problem: it places two profoundly different realities on the same legal and clinical level. Sexual orientation is based on an observable fact: a lasting erotic and affective attraction to people of the same sex, the opposite sex, or both. It is not a “distress” in itself. The suffering associated with it generally comes from social rejection, shame, internalized homophobia, or difficulties with self-acceptance, not from the orientation itself. Gender identity, by contrast, is a subjective and scientifically contested concept. It is said to rest on the feeling of alignment or misalignment between biological sex and a “felt gender.” In a distressed young person, the discomfort may have multiple origins: dysphoria related to the pubescent body, rejection of sex stereotypes, trauma, autism, internalized homophobia, or simple identity exploration. The role of the therapist is precisely to explore these possibilities without prejudice. A young person, especially a minor, does not always know how to name the source of their suffering. Discomfort with one’s body or with social expectations may conceal an unaccepted homosexuality. And long-term follow-up studies show that this scenario is not merely theoretical. In the study by Singh et al. (2021), involving 139 boys referred to a clinic for childhood gender dysphoria and followed into adulthood, only 12% persisted in their dysphoria, while around 63% of participants showed a homosexual or bisexual orientation in adulthood. This confirms what many earlier studies had already shown: a significant proportion of gender-dysphoric boys become gay or bisexual men without persisting in a trans identity. The therapist must therefore be able to freely explore sexual orientation, psychological factors, and comorbidities before concluding that there is a fixed “gender identity” or “trans identity” to be affirmed. The consequences of conflation In countries where the law equates sexual orientation with gender identity, and where the trans-affirmative approach is institutionalized in schools, media, and clinical guidelines, therapeutic support becomes extremely risky for the therapist. As soon as a young person raises a question of gender, the professional who explores other hypotheses, including a possible non-acceptance of homosexuality, risks being accused of “conversion.” Doubt, exploration, and watchful waiting thus become suspect. In a cultural environment saturated by affirmative discourse, some confused young gay men and lesbians who reject their same-sex attraction may therefore be wrongly steered toward medical transition as a “solution” to their distress. The paradoxical and tragic result: a law supposedly meant to protect homosexual youth from conversion itself creates a new form of conversion of young gay men and lesbians, this time medical and irreversible through hormones and surgery.

Gilbro2010's tweet photo. Laws banning “conversion therapies”: how, in the name of fighting conversion, the LGBTQIA+ lobby sacrifices young gay men and lesbians on the altar of gender ideology

In your view, how many countries have adopted a national law banning “conversion therapies”?

A quick search identifies about fifteen. Among these 15 countries, all of them conflate sexual orientation and gender identity within the same legal text.

These laws are often presented as legitimate protection against attempts to “convert” homosexual or bisexual people into heterosexual people. The addition of gender identity is presented as a simple logical extension of that protection.

Yet this conflation raises a major problem: it places two profoundly different realities on the same legal and clinical level.

Sexual orientation is based on an observable fact: a lasting erotic and affective attraction to people of the same sex, the opposite sex, or both. It is not a “distress” in itself. The suffering associated with it generally comes from social rejection, shame, internalized homophobia, or difficulties with self-acceptance, not from the orientation itself.

Gender identity, by contrast, is a subjective and scientifically contested concept. It is said to rest on the feeling of alignment or misalignment between biological sex and a “felt gender.”

In a distressed young person, the discomfort may have multiple origins: dysphoria related to the pubescent body, rejection of sex stereotypes, trauma, autism, internalized homophobia, or simple identity exploration. The role of the therapist is precisely to explore these possibilities without prejudice.

A young person, especially a minor, does not always know how to name the source of their suffering. Discomfort with one’s body or with social expectations may conceal an unaccepted homosexuality. And long-term follow-up studies show that this scenario is not merely theoretical.

In the study by Singh et al. (2021), involving 139 boys referred to a clinic for childhood gender dysphoria and followed into adulthood, only 12% persisted in their dysphoria, while around 63% of participants showed a homosexual or bisexual orientation in adulthood.

This confirms what many earlier studies had already shown: a significant proportion of gender-dysphoric boys become gay or bisexual men without persisting in a trans identity. The therapist must therefore be able to freely explore sexual orientation, psychological factors, and comorbidities before concluding that there is a fixed “gender identity” or “trans identity” to be affirmed.

The consequences of conflation
In countries where the law equates sexual orientation with gender identity, and where the trans-affirmative approach is institutionalized in schools, media, and clinical guidelines, therapeutic support becomes extremely risky for the therapist.

As soon as a young person raises a question of gender, the professional who explores other hypotheses, including a possible non-acceptance of homosexuality, risks being accused of “conversion.” Doubt, exploration, and watchful waiting thus become suspect.

In a cultural environment saturated by affirmative discourse, some confused young gay men and lesbians who reject their same-sex attraction may therefore be wrongly steered toward medical transition as a “solution” to their distress.

The paradoxical and tragic result: a law supposedly meant to protect homosexual youth from conversion itself creates a new form of conversion of young gay men and lesbians, this time medical and irreversible through hormones and surgery.

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