Delaware bans Conversion Therapy

[The New California Republic]

Why do you have to post this?

An agreement with my parents that is meant to keep me in church and in agreement with them and in return I get to do other stuff.

Jeez Louise.

[Godular]

For Delaware: Yay!

For current tangent of discussion: Dafuq? The idea of free will is really big in religious circles, and the idea of just... handing it off like that is just surreal.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

For Delaware: Yay!

Concerning it for minors, yes, I think it is a step in the right direction.

[Petrasylvania]

Psychology Today is not a blog, and Wiki also provides links to the sources used to make the article.

It kind of is, and the sources aren't reliable.

Next you'll claim that making kids butt chug Clorox will cure them of autism.

[Geneviev]

It kind of is, and the sources aren't reliable.

Next you'll claim that making kids butt chug Clorox will cure them of autism.

No, that's stupid and abusive.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Next you'll claim that making kids butt chug Clorox will cure them of autism.

No, that's stupid and abusive.

Some people view conversion therapy as that too, stupid and abusive.

[Senkaku]

Why do you have to post this?

An agreement with my parents that is meant to keep me in church and in agreement with them and in return I get to do other stuff.

...and the agreement with your parents involved you going on NSG and posting what they want you to post...? I mean, it's your business, that just seems like a rather weird term to throw in there.

[The New California Republic]

No, that's stupid and abusive.

Some people view conversion therapy as that too, stupid and abusive.

Yup. One of the reasons conversion therapy has such a bad press is that there have been shocking cases of serious abuse, resulting in long-term psychological issues.

[Geneviev]

No, that's stupid and abusive.

Some people view conversion therapy as that too, stupid and abusive.

Scary is a better word.

Anyways, the two are sort of different. Autism doesn't need to be cured.

[Sovaal]

No, that's stupid and abusive.

Some people view conversion therapy as that too, stupid and abusive.

Id say that’s puting it pretty mildly.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Some people view conversion therapy as that too, stupid and abusive.

Yup. One of the reasons conversion therapy has such a bad press is that there have been shocking cases of serious abuse, resulting in long-term psychological issues.

Oh, quite true. I mean, the literature on such cases is rather extensive.

[Sovaal]

Some people view conversion therapy as that too, stupid and abusive.

Scary is a better word.

Anyways, the two are sort of different. Autism doesn't need to be cured.

Homosexuality isn’t something that needs to be cured either.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Some people view conversion therapy as that too, stupid and abusive.

Scary is a better word.

Anyways, the two are sort of different. Autism doesn't need to be cured.

Autism has nothing to do with conversion therapy. And scary is putting it mildly. It is a bunch of abusive practice set on pseudo-science.

[The New California Republic]

Some people view conversion therapy as that too, stupid and abusive.

Scary is a better word.

No...just...no. "Stupid" and "Abusive" are very much the correct words here.

[Petrasylvania]

Some people view conversion therapy as that too, stupid and abusive.

Scary is a better word.

Anyways, the two are sort of different. Autism doesn't need to be cured.

Lefthandedness "needed to be cured" for a long time too also with abuse involved.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Scary is a better word.

No...just...no. "Stupid" and "Abusive" are very much the correct words here.

That's probably her parents posting, or her posting. Who knows. She may hold these views and is bullshitting us by saying her parents make her do it. I have cease believing anything she posts.

[Geneviev]

Scary is a better word.

No...just...no. "Stupid" and "Abusive" are very much the correct words here.

Stupid, abusive, and scary.

[The Serbian Empire]

Some people view conversion therapy as that too, stupid and abusive.

Id say that’s puting it pretty mildly.

I describe it as full blown torture.

[The New California Republic]

No...just...no. "Stupid" and "Abusive" are very much the correct words here.

That's probably her parents posting, or her posting. Who knows. She may hold these views and is bullshitting us by saying her parents make her do it. I have cease believing anything she posts.

See, this is why I dislike the thought of people posting the opinions of others without attribution, it just turns into a colossal mindfuck in terms of trying to figure out whose voice is speaking here.

[Neo Caracas]

I'd post my opinion but i'd get attacked, so no.

[Zurkerx]

Took them long enough.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Id say that’s puting it pretty mildly.

I describe it as full blown torture.

There's evidence of psychological damage being rather severe and that it can take years for it to be repaired.

[Prydania]

Conversion therapy doesn't work so I guess thats ok but if we get a thing that can like make some gay person straight with minimal psychological distress I think we should allow it

Considering you once trotted out “Nazis aren’t really antisemitic just because they deny the Holocaust” in a SC thread? Well this doesn’t shock me.

So tell me, oh glorious ethno-nationalist, why is it a problem if gay people are just gay? Why does that bother you?

[San Lumen]

Conversion therapy doesn't work so I guess thats ok but if we get a thing that can like make some gay person straight with minimal psychological distress I think we should allow it

However that is is not possible.

[Notovasian Tsardom]

As a LGBT Person, this makes me happy, but....


..Why does it matter? The bill bans involuntary therapies from being practiced by licensed professionals. It does not cover unlicensed people trying to make a quick buck. Even then, the practice and, by extension, the image of it, is slowly but surely dying out, as people who believe firmly in it get slowly pushed out by the younger generations, which very well will end up with this practice being well and truly outlawed, but that timeframe my be extended if the newer generation carries the same ideals as the older one.