by Matt Margolis | December 19, 2023 at PJMedia
For many years now, LGBT activists have been attacking conversion therapy — a common term for various treatments and counseling for distressed LGBT-identifying people to change their orientation to heterosexual. You can’t look up the practice on a search engine without getting a long list of sites that declare unequivocally that it is “pseudoscience.” Heck, according to the Wikipedia page for conversion therapy, there is “scientific consensus” that it is “ineffective at changing a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity and that it frequently causes significant long-term psychological harm.”
Gee, where have we heard about “scientific consensus” before?
Anyway, the movement against conversion therapy has resulted in more than 20 states banning the practice, in part because conversion therapy allegedly increases the suicide risk of LGBT Americans. This claim is based on a variety of studies that were unscientific and manipulated to get the desired results.
Again, that’s a practice we’re all too familiar with.
According to Paul Sullins, a research professor at Catholic University and senior researcher for the Ruth Institute, “The evidence shows that SOCE [sexual orientation change efforts] is fairly effective at preventing suicide attempts,” not increasing them.
