In an attempt to avoid working this morning, I stumbled upon this article and began reading. It is part of an article whose headlines I have seen over the last 2 days but avoided - a young man so tormented by who he was internally despite the "therapy" he endured to change that, that he took his life out of the equation. This is indeed the "psychiatric abuse of gender-variant kids." [Gender Shock by Phyllis Burke].
This thing is killing me. And the doctoral student in the 1970's who developed this therapy modality (The Gender Identity Clinic at UCLA in the 1970's) claimed he was trying to "save" youths from succumbing to the sinful practices of homosexuality, yet was caught in May 2010 traveling with a male escort.
Seems the good doctor generously passed along the love (his religious-based hangups) to many other kids. The problem is, one of the kids turned up dead. He could not reconcile the battle within himself. This kind of abuse appears not to be easily fixed. The journalists who broke the story are looking for other kids who endured the experimental therapy out at UCLA in the 1970’s with therapist George Alan Rekers.
I cannot call the man “doctor.”
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/06/08/rekers.sissy.boy.experiment/index.html?hpt=hp_c2
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