Portugal has banned therapy to change gay orientation to heterosexual under the threat of imprisonment for up to 3 years. From now on, people with unwanted homosexual tendencies will not be able to get free of them with the aid of doctors.
The governing Socialist organization in Portugal has implemented fresh rules prohibiting the conduct of conversion therapy in homosexuals.
The fresh law provides that persons found guilty of conducting specified proceedings may be punished by financial sanctions or imprisonment for up to 3 years. The conviction will depend on the age of the individual being treated. In addition, the conduct of conversion therapy will consequence in a ban on profession or functions involving regular contact with minors, as well as a ban on parental authority for a period of 20 years.
Under the fresh rules, penalties will besides be imposed "anyone who submits to actions aimed at altering or repressing his or her identity or sex expression".
In late 2022, akin The bill published France. Specialists who would commit to this treatment are facing 2 years imprisonment and a fine of EUR 30 000. If the conversion therapy concerns children and people who are "particularly vulnerable", possible penalties increase to 3 years in prison and EUR 45 000.
Is changing gay orientation right?
The left has for many years been pushing the communicative that conversion therapy is ineffective pseudoscience, and sexual orientation cannot be changed. However, investigation proves that nothing indicates that anyone was born gay due to the fact that there is no gene of homosexuality, and homosexuality is the consequence of a complex influence of a set of improvement factors.
Rigorous survey of the pairs of identical twins overturned the genetic explanation of the conditioning of homosexuality. Uniform twins (in professional literature referred to as monozygous) have identical genes if homosexuality were genetically conditioned and established already at birth, we should presume that erstwhile 1 of the brothers is homosexual, the another must besides be homosexual. Researchers Peter Bearman and Hannah Brückner from Columbia and Yale universities studied data from the National Longitudinal survey of Adolescent Health, and found compatibility only 6.7 percent for men and 5.3 percent for female identical twins. Researchers suggested that children's experiences are much more crucial for the improvement of homosexuality.
The pattern of compatibility (parallel similarities) of homosexual preferences for siblings does not propose genetic influence independent of the social context. Our data fakes the hypothesis of hormonal transfer by demonstrating a single condition eliminating the effect of the other sex duplicate presence of older same-sex siblings. We besides considered and rejected a speculative evolutionary explanation based on reflection of the impact of birth order in siblings on sexual orientation. On the contrary, the results of our investigation support the hypothesis that non-specific sex socialisation in early childhood and childhood before puberty then forms emerging sexual preferences towards its own sex," said scientists.
The explanation that gay orientation has its origins in childhood experiences involves intellectual problems among homosexuals who experience them more than the general population. A Dutch survey published in Archives of General Psychiatry compared people who have not had homoerotic sex in the last 12 months. Sexually active gays had a higher hazard of developing: strong depression, bipolar disorder, panic attacks, agoraphobia, and obsessive-compulsive disorders. Women who had any form of homoerotic sex frequently diagnosed with depression, sociophobia, and alcoholism. Moreover, those who had homoerotic sex had an increased susceptibility to almost all the problems measured in the study. Researchers found that “homosexuality is not only related to intellectual wellness problems during puberty and early adulthood, but besides in later life”
Another survey conducted in the United States shows that homosexual orientation is constant, even if a homosexual individual does not undergo any treatment to change his sexual orientation. The reflection afraid the durability and change of sexual orientation over 10 years. It was attended by 2560 people, of which women were 54 percent, with an average age of 47 years. At the beginning of this survey 97.42 percent of this group declared heterosexual identity, 1.25 percent homosexual identity, and 1,33% bisexual identity. After 10 years 2.15% of the 2560 participants replied that they had changed sexual orientation. The top number of changes in orientation occurred among bisexual women (64.71%) and homosexual women (63.63%) and in the group of bisexual men (47.06%). A smaller number of changes occurred in homosexual men (9.52%), and the least of these changes occurred among heterosexual women (1.36%) and heterosexual men (0.78%).
Nationals.net/legacy.lambdalegal.org♪ Oh, yeah ♪jamanetwork.com
Cf. Mock SE, Eibach RP. 2011, "Stability and Change in Sexual Orientation Identity Over a 10-Year Period in Adulthood", in: "Archives of Sexual behaviour in press".
