Reparative Therapy for Trans Youth: Kenneth Zucker is Different from George Reke

[Natasha]

Reparative Therapy for Trans Youth: Kenneth Zucker is Different from George Rekers How?


2/3/12
Bayard Rustin

Watching this recent CNN story on reparative therapy and the damage it did  to George Reker's poster child (Kirk Andrew Murphy),  I was struck by the similarity of this story and a child that NPR covered about childhood gender identity issues. "Bradley" was treated by Kenneth Zucker for gender identity disorder. Does this:

    "So, to treat Bradley, Zucker explained to Carol that she and her husband would have to radically change their parenting. Bradley would no longer be allowed to spend time with girls. He would no longer be allowed to play with girlish toys or pretend that he was a female character. Zucker said that all of these activities were dangerous to a kid with gender identity disorder. He explained that unless Carol and her husband helped the child to change his behavior, as Bradley grew older, he likely would be rejected by both peer groups. Boys would find his feminine interests unappealing. Girls would want more boyish boys. Bradley would be an outcast." 🔗 [Link: transadvocate.com/reparative-​therapy-​-​%3E​-​bleeped-​%3C​-​-​is-​different-​-​%3E​-​bleeped-​%3C​-​-​is-​different-​from-​george-​rekers-​how.htm%5B​/url/]

[trueblue]

Seems to me, he is breeding a generation of transphobic, homophobic, intolerant individuals. These children are being conditioned into thinking that it is not okay for boys to be feminine and girls to be masculine, and are being punished for thinking otherwise.