Feminine Boy Project
Posted on 30 March 2010.
By Cynthya BrianKate
http://www.sbpress.com/2010/03/feminine-boy-project/Though Stony Brook denies it, this campus was involved in a government-funded brainwashing project to keep children from "acting queer" for two decades. Some people involved still work on campus, and the Feminine Boy Project laid groundwork for current psychiatric abuses against transgender and gender-nonconforming people.
This project was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 1972 to1986. The original stated goal on the grants was "treatment of pre-homosexuality"–the, idea that if children were kept from stepping outside gender stereotypes, they wouldn't turn out gay. When being gay was taken out of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in 1973, the goal was changed to "treatment of pretranssexuality," conflating gender identity and sexuality as the same, based in biased assumptions that anything other than stereotypical gender identities and heterosexuality were wrong. Children were declared "pathological" for behavior like boys playing with dolls, wearing dresses or helping in the kitchen, or girls climbing trees, playing with boys' toys or wearing boy clothes.
