(HRC Back Story) HRC submitted comment yesterday on the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) proposed changes to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders , pressing the APA to do more to eliminate the stigma transgender Americans face. The public comment phase of the review process ended April 20. HRC Associate Director of Diversity Allyson Robinson offered her anylsis of the APA’s proposals: “Upon reviewing the APA’s proposed revisions, it appears that they no longer consider gender identity that differs from birth sex to be a basis for psychiatric diagnosis.
(GLAAD) Yesterday GLAAD sent our members a Call to Action, asking them to hold CNN accountable for an April 6 segment featuring so-called “ex-gay” activist Richard Cohen. Cohen had been invited onto CNN Newsroom with Kyra Phillips to discuss a story about efforts to repeal an outdated California law requiring the State Department of Mental Health to conduct research into the “causes” and “cures” of being gay. But CNN failed to note that the nation’s leading medical and mental health authorities have uniformly dismissed the idea that being gay is something to be “treated,” and neglected to report that Cohen is not licensed and has been discredited by major mainstream psychological associations.
(GLAAD) This morning GLAAD announced a Call to Action after CNN gave so-called “ex-gay” activist Richard Cohen a platform for his biased and unsubstantiated views. We put out an initial blog about the incident yesterday . In an attempt to discuss efforts to repeal an outdated law in California requiring the State Department of Mental Health to conduct research into the “causes” and “cures” of being gay, CNN took the irresponsible step of allowing the unlicensed, widely discredited, so-called “ex-gay” activist Richard Cohen onto the network’s airwaves to promote the idea that gay people can be turned straight.
(GLAAD) In an attempt to discuss efforts to repeal an outdated law in California requiring the State Department of Mental Health to conduct research into the “causes” and “cures” of being gay, CNN took the irresponsible step of allowing the unlicensed, widely discredited, so-called “ex-gay” activist, Richard Cohen, onto the network’s airwaves to promote the idea that gay people can be turned straight. CNN Host Kyra Phillips paired Cohen with California Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal in a “debate” of sorts. Lowenthal is working to repeal the outdated law in California and penned on op-ed on the topic in yesterday’s edition of The Los Angeles Times , titled, “‘Cure Gays?
(365 Gay) (Fresno, Calif.) A Fresno City College science instructor violated a campus anti-discrimination policy when he told students that homosexuality is a mental disorder that should be treated with psychotherapy, campus administrators have concluded. Christopher Villa, vice president of student services, reported the findings last week in a letter to three students who had lodged complaints against health sciences instructor Bradley Lopez. The campus’ student newspaper published Villa’s letter Wednesday.
(SFGate) Wow. That’s what a former official for Equality California, the San Francisco-based gay rights organization, said after browsing through the California Welfare and Institutions Code. Section 8050 of the code states that the State Department of Mental Health “…
(Advocate) A psychiatrist and adviser to antigay former Northern Irish MP Iris Robinson has been reported to the United Kingdom’s General Medical Council for claiming he could cure patients of homosexuality.
Ex-Gay Watch: “Several ex-gay survivors – people who went through ex-gay therapy but ultimately found it unsuccessful and came out as gay – have been profiled recently by various media outlets. Jacob Wilson, Vince Cervantes, and Daniel Gonzales have been interviewed by Edge Magazine, a gay magazine in Boston, MA. In the article they talk [...]
