The nation's largest association of physicians supports a ban on the practice of trying to turn members of the LGBTQ community 'straight.'
On 11/20/19 at 4:01 PM ESTThe American Medical Association , the nation's largest association of physicians, said Tuesday it officially opposed"conversion therapy" for members of the LGBTQ community and urged the federal government to ban such procedures nationwide.
"It is clear to the AMA that the conversion therapy needs to end in the United States given the risk of deliberate harm to LGBTQ people," Dr. William Kobler, a member of the AMA board, said in a."Conversion therapy has no foundation as scientifically valid medical care and lacks credible evidence to support its efficacy or safety."
Conversion therapy, according to the organization, is the discredited practice of trying to change a person's sexual identity from lesbian, gay or bisexual to heterosexual, or attempting to make a transgender person identify with the gender assigned at birth. Usually, this is done through counseling. However, as, it can also involve methods such as electroshock therapy and deprivation treatments that are meant to cause"heterosexual adjustment.
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