Does “Conversion Therapy” Hurt People Who Identify as Transgender?

Sep 19, 2019 by Jill

by Mark Regnerus, Public Discourse:

The New JAMA Psychiatry Study Cannot Tell Us.

A new study purports to prove the harms of “conversion therapy” for those who identify as transgender. But there are at least four good reasons for being leery of the results appearing therein.

In a “study” that arrived to much media fanfare last week in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, researchers affiliated with Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital purported to offer convincing proof that “conversion therapy” predicts longstanding toxic outcomes among Americans who self-identify as transgender, including greater recent suicidality and more severe psychological distress in the past month. Its results, the authors state, “support the policy positions” of such medical professional organizations as the American Medical Association and American Academy of Pediatrics.

I am agnostic on the topic of “conversion,” though I suspect the subject is more diverse and complicated than political soundbites let on. But I’m not agnostic about the new JAMA Psychiatry study. There are at least four good reasons for being leery of the results appearing therein.

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See also: What matters is context: Why a new study on homosexuality falls short, by Dr. Christian Spaeman, LifeSite

And see here for our collection of articles on the latest research showing conclusively that people are not ‘born gay’.