What are the potential risks of backlash or negative reactions to public education efforts?

Apr 27, 2016 ... Autistic people are continuously battered with compliance strategies, with imposed ways of doing things that are not natural to us. The research on conversion therapy is limited by the difficulty of empirically assessing a person's sexual orientation. All of the studies we identified rely on ... “Conversion therapies” (or “reparative therapies”) are interventions purported to alter same-sex attractions or an individual's gender expression. The act prohibits a licensed physician specializing in psychiatry or a licensed, certified, or registered mental health care provider from engaging in ... After six years of conversion therapy, I was suicidal. I was born and raised in a born-again, Evangelical Christian household in a town just outside Glasgow. Jul 15, 2021 ... ... conversion therapy. Conversion therapy, also known as “reparative therapy,” refers to a counseling practice that seeks to change a patient's ... The National Association of Social Workers issued a positional statement in May of 2015 that “condemns the use of SOCE or so-called reparative therapy by any ... Feb 1, 2024 ... This bill would criminalise offering or practicing conversion therapy, defined as practices where the practitioner demonstrates an assumption of a preferable ... Sep 20, 2024 ... Conversion therapy - sometimes called "reparative therapy" or "gay cure therapy" - tries to change someone's sexual orientation or gender identity. Jan 12, 2023 ... Wisconsin Republicans voted Thursday to again allow therapists, social workers and counselors to try to change LGBTQ clients' gender identities and sexual ...