@Stereoguy It's not "therapy".

It's based on the idea that an individual confused about his or her gender or sexuality can be "cured" of it, but by what amounts to punishment by ignorami rather that any attempt at genuine clinical psychology (even if that is possible).

It's really a form of what in British law might be described as "coercive and contrrolling behaviour".

@nobodyishome it ought to be banned completely.

@Baremine oh what should be banned and why :)

@nobodyishome conversion therapy. It has been proven medically to be bad medicine.

@MasterLee the Netherlands is taking initiative there too. There's currently a big discussion about whether circumcision should be banned. 👍

@CrazyMusicLover In some countries perhaps, but I think they are a late-20C invention anyway.

@Afterlife No. Conversion therapy is not clinical psychology. It is not even "therapy".

@Afterlife It's logical that religious conservatism is a psychiatric problem. Does this mean that treatment aimed at getting the boomers to face reality, such as configuring grandparent control so that the 65+ kids can't access Facebook/FOX unsupervised, or the outright ban of extremist parties that try to reenact the Nazi/fascist ideology as they do in Germany should be called a violation of FoS in allegedly "free" country such as the USA? 🤪

@Elessar Sorry- I don't really follow your argument, and its link to both extremist politics and freedom of speech.

As to whether it would work in the USA, I suggest that would be anyone's guess these days.

@LordShadowfire oh...glad i dont live in the netherlands that have such camps

@beermeplease The Netherlands is acting to prevent any such "camps" - if any such thing exist there. The aim is to outlaw a form of cruelty whether in so-called "camps" (are there such things?) or in individual encounters.

@beermeplease The Netherlands is fighting against such camps. But you do live in a country where they’re illegal, which means you care about your children, too.

Guess which side of the question MAGA USA is on ?

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