AMA Calls for Nationwide Ban on LGBTQ Conversion Therapy
The American Medical Association (AMA), 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 statement. "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 previously reported by Newsweek, it can also involve methods such as electroshock therapy and deprivation treatments that are meant to cause "heterosexual adjustment."
Medical professionals have dismissed conversion therapy as "patently false," saying it is based on the mistaken notion that same-sex attraction or gender dysphoria is "unnatural." The American Psychiatric Association made an official statement opposing conversion therapy in 1998 and has continually called for a ban of "the harmful and discriminatory practice."
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