The annual meeting of the British Medical Association has declared that therapies to ‘cure’ gay people of homosexuality are harmful.
The body met in Brighton yesterday and more than two-thirds of doctors present backed a call for the Royal College of Psychiatrists and other mental health standard-setting bodies to reject the treatments and ban their use in codes of practice.
Research published last year found that a sixth of registered British therapist and psychiatrists have attempted to “cure” patients of homosexuality.
“Sexuality is such a fundamental part of who a person is that attempts to change it just result in significant confusion, depression and even suicide,” said Tom Dolphin, vice-chair of the BMA’s junior doctors committee. “You can’t just wish away same-sex attraction no matter how inconvenient it might be.”
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