Immutable Ideology

A fifteen-year-old New Jersey boy, identified in court records as “John Doe,” has struggled with unwanted same-sex attraction since he was ten. Two years ago, at his urging, his family took him to see a therapist in New York who specialized in what court documents refer to as “Sexual Orientation Change Efforts.”

According to John Doe, the therapy has helped him. In his words, “every day would get a little better.”

We know this because his family is challenging a New Jersey law that, like a similar law in California, “ban[s] licensed counselors from engaging in talk therapies that reduce the level of same-sex attractions in minors for whom such reduction is a personal goal.”

via Immutable Ideology.

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