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Obama to Call for End to ‘Conversion’ Therapies for Gay and Transgender Youth

Started by Lady Smith, April 08, 2015, 08:10:38 PM

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Obama to Call for End to 'Conversion' Therapies for Gay and Transgender Youth.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/us/politics/obama-to-call-for-end-to-conversion-therapies-for-gay-and-transgender-youth.html

By MICHAEL D. SHEAR APRIL 8, 2015

WASHINGTON — "A 17-year-old transgender youth, Leelah Alcorn, stunned her friends and a vast Internet audience in December when she threw herself in front of a tractor-trailer after writing in an online suicide note that religious therapists had tried to convert her back to being a boy".

"In response, President Obama this week will call for an end to such psychiatric therapies aimed at "repairing" gay, lesbian and transgender youth, White House officials said. His decision on the sensitive issue is the latest example of his continuing embrace of gay rights".

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suzifrommd

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katrinaw

Yay that's wonderful news, far too long have "professionals" tried to make us conform...

Lets all hope that this becomes an offence before he is replaced... beyond state governance.

"Mr. Obama will not explicitly call for a federal law banning therapists from using such therapies on their patients, but he is open to conversations with lawmakers in both parties, White House officials said on Wednesday. Instead, he will throw his support behind the efforts to ban the practice at the state level."

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