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When the practice of sex-change surgery first emerged back in the early 1970s, I would often remind its advocating psychiatrists that with other patients, alcoholics in particular, they would quote the Serenity Prayer , “God, give me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” Where did they get the idea that our sexual identity (“gender” was the term they preferred) as men or women was in the category of things that could be changed? Their regular response was to show me their patients. Men (and until recently they were all men) with whom I spoke before their surgery would tell me that their bodies and sexual identities were at variance. Those I met after surgery would tell me that the surgery and hormone treatments that had made them “women” had also made them happy and contented. None of these encounters were persuasive, however. The post-surgical subjects struck me as caricatures of wom

LONDON, December 17, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – While a British Labour Party MP proposes a private member’s bill to ban therapists offering help to overcome unwanted feelings of same-sex attraction , one prominent Christian therapist has warned that the bill is just part of ongoing violations of the rights of clients seeking help. Dr. Michael Davidson says the bill is part of a “ Stalinist ” style effort to force out any  professional opinions that dissent  from the “gay political and social ideology” that is being adopted by psychological associations. Professional governing bodies, starting with the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Dr. Davidson told LifeSiteNews.com in an interview today, are guided on these issues by a political ideology, not science, and are manipulating and misrepresenting empirical findings. “The agenda is being driven not by politicians but by the professional bodies,” he said, who are employing what he called “Stalinist tactics” to quash dissent. “Y

English: Barack Obama delivers a speech at the University of Southern California (Video of the speech) (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) WASHINGTON, D.C. , February 26, 2013, ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – President Barack Obama's administration does not believe homosexuals can change their sexual orientation and holds that reparative therapy is “generally futile and potentially dangerous to an individual's well-being.” Those are the sentiments expressed in the amicus curiae the Justice Department filed with the Supreme Court on Friday, urging justices to strike down a provision of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). According to the Obama administration, “the broad consensus in the scientific community is that, for the vast majority of people (gay and straight alike), sexual orientation is not a voluntary choice.” The brief also asserts that the medical profession has determined that “efforts to change an individual’s sexual orientation are generally futile and potentially dangerous

LONDON , February 19, 2013, ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – While pressure continues at  the international level  to prohibit psychotherapists from offering help to those wanting to overcome same-sex attraction , a Canadian therapist has told a British audience that such bans are “unethical.” A debate, billed as a discussion on the “legitimacy and freedom to offer sexual reorientation,” was held at Westminster in late January organized by Christian Concern and Core Issues Trust ahead of a debate in the House of Commons on the government’s “gay marriage” bill. Dr. Joseph Berger, a consultant psychiatrist at the Royal College of Psychiatrists in Canada, and a practitioner of “change therapy,” attended the debate and said it “absolutely horrifies” him that some professional therapy organizations in Britain are attempting to prohibit therapists from offering it. “There should be absolutely no ban on any such treatment. In fact, I consider it unethical to propose such bans,” Berger said.