Why is everything so pro gay now
The Lies and Dangers of Efforts to Modify Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity
Organizational Positions on Reparative Therapy
Declaration on the Impropriety and Dangers of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Change Efforts
We, as national organizations standing for millions of licensed medical and mental health concern professionals, educators, and advocates, come together to declare our professional and scientific consensus on the impropriety, inefficacy, and detriments of practices that seek to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender persona, commonly referred to as “conversion therapy.”
We withstand firmly together in help of legislative and policy efforts to curtail the unscientific and dangerous apply of sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts.
American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry
"The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry finds no evidence to support the application of any “therapeutic intervention” operating under the premise that a specific sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or gender expression is pathological. Furthermore, based on the scientific evidence, the AACAP asserts that such “conversion ther
LGBTQ+ facts and figures
An overview of the challenges faced by Homosexual people in various aspects of life, including health, community, employment, education, and sport, as well as from an international perspective.
- Health
- One in eight LGBT people (13%) have experienced some form of unequal treatment from healthcare staff because they’re LGBT.
- Almost one in four LGBT people (23%) have witnessed discriminatory or negative remarks against LGBT people by healthcare staff.
- One in seven LGBT people (14%) have avoided treatment for fear of discrimination because they’re LGBT.
- Seven in ten trans people (70%) report being impacted by transphobia when accessing general health services.
- Nearly half of trans people (45%) said that their GP did not have a wonderful understanding of their needs as a trans person, rising to over half of non-binary people (55%).
- 90% of trans people reported experiencing delays when searching transition-related healthcare.
- Trans people of colour also experienced transphobia from trans-specific healthcare providers at more than double the rate of alabaster respondents (13% compared to 6%)
Taken from LGBT in Britain: Health (2018) and TransActual
Overview
Around the world, people are under charge for who they are.
Living as a lesbian, gay, fluid, transgender or intersex (LGBTI) person can be life-threatening in a number of countries across the globe. For those who do not live with a daily immediate chance to their experience, discrimination on the basis of one’s sexual orientation, gender identity and/or statement and sex characteristics, can have a devastating effect on physical, mental and emotional well-being for those forced to endure it.
Discrimination and violence against LGBTI people can appear in many forms, from name-calling, bullying, harassment, and gender-based violence, to organism denied a profession or appropriate healthcare. Protests to uphold the rights of LGBTI people also face suppression across the globe.
The range of unequal treatment faced is extensive and damaging and could be based on:
- your sexual orientation (who you’re attracted to)
- gender identity (how you self-identify, irrespective of the sex assigned at birth)
- gender expression (how you express your gender, for example through your clothing, hair or mannerisms),
- sex characteristics (for example, your genitals, chromosomes, reproductive
The evolutionary puzzle of homosexuality
These figures may not be high enough to sustain genetic traits specific to this group, but the evolutionary biologist Jeremy Yoder points out in a blog post, external that for much of contemporary history gay people haven't been living openly male lover lives. Compelled by culture to enter marriages and have children, their reproduction rates may have been higher than they are now.
How many lgbtq+ people have children also depends on how you define being "gay". Many of the "straight" men who have sex with fa'afafine in Samoa leave on to get married and have children.
"The category of same-sex sexuality becomes very diffuse when you take a multicultural perspective," says Joan Roughgarden, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Hawaii. "If you go to India, you'll find that if someone says they are 'gay' or 'homosexual' then that immediately identifies them as Western. But that doesn't mean there's no homosexuality there."
Similarly in the West, there is evidence that many people go through a phase of homosexual activity. In the 1940s, US sex researcher Alfred K
The early 1990s saw a major growth of the Council of Europe membership due to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia. In 1989, for example, there were 22 member states whereas by 2010 this had risen to 47.
To attach the Council of Europe, new member-states must undertake certain commitments, including conforming their criminal laws to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). As we know from the situation in Northern Ireland described in Dudgeon above, the ECHR right to privacy prohibits the criminalisation of same-sex activity. By the time candidate states from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet bloc applied for membership of the Council of Europe, it was a condition of their accession to decriminalise.
By way of example, the following countries decriminalised at or around the time they joined: Lithuania (joined the Council of Europe in 1993; decriminalised in 1993), Estonia (1993; 1992), Romania (1993; 1996), Serbia (2003; 1994), Ukraine (1995; 1991), Albania (1995; 1995), Latvia (1995; 1992), Macedonia FYROM (1995; 1996), Moldova (1995; 1995), Russia (1996; 1993), Bosnia and Herzegovina (2002; 1998-2001), Georgia (1999; 200