NEWS.- US President Barack Obama, yesterday said he was in favor of ending all types of psychiatric treatment therapies aimed at members of the LGTBI collective, whose purpose is to change the sexual orientation of people. It's about the wrong calls "Cures of homosexuality" so appreciated by some conservative or religious groups.
In his statement, the president said “Tonight, somewhere in the US, a young man cannot sleep because he must only carry a secret that he has kept forever. You may soon decide that the time has come to tell that secret. What happens next is up to him, his family, his friends, teachers, and the community. But it also depends on us, the type of society we create, the type of future we build, "Obama concluded.
The declaration was made after the President valued the citizen's request made on the Casablanca website and endorsed by 120.000 signatures, in which Obama was asked to speak out on this issue. The initiative started three months ago and it presents the case of Leelah Alcorn, transsexual of 17 years who committed suicide last December in Ohio. We remember that Leelah left a suicide note that you can recover here, in which he blamed his parents for forcing his assistance to a conversion therapy, while he hoped that his death would improve things.
Obama will begin talks with Democratic and Republican lawmakers showing their full support for any initiative to prohibit the practice of these therapies, although it will not explicitly demand a federal law in that sense.
Beyond ethical or moral positions, we must remember that the business of "conversion therapies", which has enriched many unscrupulous, poses a serious risk for those who submit to them. Valerie Jarret, Obama adviser, has stated: «Scientific evidence shows that conversion therapy, especially when practiced in young people, It is not adequate from a medical or ethical point of view and can cause substantial damageTherefore, the Administration supports the efforts to prohibit the use of conversion therapies in minors ”.
We hope that the example of President Obama will be followed by other countries and leaders and end once and for all with the pathologization of sexual orientation and gender identity.
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