Talk:Conversion therapy/Definitions

This page is strictly for listing definitions of "conversion therapy", "sexual orientation change efforts" (SOCE), and other equivalent terms. Entries take the form of a quote followed by a citation, and are listed in no particular order. All other analysis and discussion should be omitted.
 * 1) "Conversion therapy: Efforts to change an individual’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression through behavioral health or medical interventions. Any effort with an a priori goal of a gender expression that aligns with stereotypical norms, cisgender identity, and/or heterosexual orientation, identity, and sexual behaviors."
 * 2) "Conversion therapy is any attempt to change a person’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression."
 * 3) "Conversion therapy is any intervention that seeks to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. Conversion therapies work towards one goal, and that goal is to ‘cure’ someone from being lesbian, gay, bi, trans, ace, intersex and/or queer."
 * 4) "For the purposes of this document 'conversion therapy' is an umbrella term for a therapeutic approach, or any model or individual viewpoint that demonstrates an assumption that any sexual orientation or gender identity is inherently preferable to any other, and which attempts to bring about a change of sexual orientation or gender identity, or seeks to suppress an individual’s expression of sexual orientation or gender identity on that basis."
 * 5) "Conversion therapy is an umbrella term for a therapeutic approach, model or individual viewpoint that demonstrates an assumption that any sexual orientation or gender identity is inherently preferable to any other, and which attempts to bring about a change of sexual orientation or gender identity, or seeks to suppress an individual’s expression of sexual orientation or gender identity on that basis."
 * 6) "So-called 'conversion therapy,' sometimes known as 'reparative therapy,' is a range of dangerous and discredited practices that falsely claim to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity or expression."
 * 7) "therapy aiming at changing the sexual orientation of lesbian women and gay men"
 * 8) "“Conversion therapy” describes any attempt to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity or expression, or any component of these. It is sometimes called reparative therapy, reorientation therapy, sexual orientation change efforts, or gender identity change efforts."
 * 9) "'Conversion therapies' (or 'reparative therapies') are interventions purported to alter same-sex attractions or an individual’s gender expression with the specific aim to promote heterosexuality as a preferable outcome. Similarly, for youth whose gender identity is incongruent with their sex anatomy, efforts to change their core gender identity have also been described and more recently subsumed under the conversion therapy rubric (5)."
 * 10) "conversion therapy – Therapy or treatment intended or claimed to change or suppress a person's sexuality or gender identity, esp. to make a gay or bisexual person heterosexual, or to make a transgender person identify with their birth sex; the practice of attempting to change or suppress a person's sexuality or gender identity in this way."
 * 11) "conversion therapy – The practice of attempting to cause a non-heterosexual person to become heterosexual by using psychoanalysis, behavior modification, spiritual counseling, etc."
 * 12) "conversion therapy – The use of any of various methods (such as aversive stimulation or religious counseling) in an attempt to change a person's sexual orientation to heterosexual or to change a person's gender identity to correspond to the sex the person has or was identified as having at birth"
 * 13) "Conversion therapy is any emotional or physical therapy used to 'cure' or 'repair' a person’s attraction to the same sex, or their gender identity and expression."
 * 14) "Conversion therapy – Interventions aimed at changing someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity. These take many forms. Also referred to as reparative therapy."
 * 15) "an attempt to “change someone’s sexual orientation to 'heterosexual' or their gender identity to 'cisgender' (Higbee et al., 2020, p. 1)"
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 * 1) "Conversion therapy, also known as sexual orientation change efforts (SOCE), is the scientifically discredited practice of trying to change someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity"
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 * 1) "Conversion therapy" is an umbrella term describing a poorly defined set of psychological, behavioural, physical and faith-based interventions that work to suppress same-sex attraction, or to deter patients from expressing gender identities discordant with sex assigned at birth. The defining feature of conversion therapy and analogous practices (e.g., intersex surgeries, denial of gender-affirming medical care) is an ideology that favours heterosexual and cisgender identities and behaviours over all others."
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 * 1) "Conversion therapies are any treatments, including individual talk therapy, behavioral (e.g. aversive stimuli), group therapy or milieu (e.g. “retreats or inpatient treatments” relying on all of the above methods) treatments, which attempt to change an individual's sexual orientation from homosexual to heterosexual."
 * 2) "Since mainstream mental health organizations have rejected this position ["reparative therapy"], the more accurate term for therapeutic efforts to change homosexual orientation is sexual orientation conversion therapy, or simply, conversion therapy."
 * 3) "Sexual orientation change efforts – 'A range of techniques used by a variety of mental health professionals and non-professionals with the goal of changing sexual orientation' (APA, 2021c, p. 1). The term is gradually replacing conversion therapy in the professional literature because efforts to change someone’s sexual orientation do not qualify as therapy."
 * (full text available through The Wikipedia Library; book; Chap. 1.
 * 1) "Conversion therapy is any emotional or physical therapy used to 'cure' or 'repair' a person’s attraction to the same sex, or their gender identity and expression."
 * 2) "Conversion therapy – Interventions aimed at changing someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity. These take many forms. Also referred to as reparative therapy."
 * 3) "an attempt to “change someone’s sexual orientation to 'heterosexual' or their gender identity to 'cisgender' (Higbee et al., 2020, p. 1)"
 * (full text available through The Wikipedia Library
 * 1) "Conversion therapy, also known as sexual orientation change efforts (SOCE), is the scientifically discredited practice of trying to change someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity"
 * (full text available at The Wikipedia Library) citing
 * 1) "Conversion therapy" is an umbrella term describing a poorly defined set of psychological, behavioural, physical and faith-based interventions that work to suppress same-sex attraction, or to deter patients from expressing gender identities discordant with sex assigned at birth. The defining feature of conversion therapy and analogous practices (e.g., intersex surgeries, denial of gender-affirming medical care) is an ideology that favours heterosexual and cisgender identities and behaviours over all others."
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 * 1) "Conversion therapies are any treatments, including individual talk therapy, behavioral (e.g. aversive stimuli), group therapy or milieu (e.g. “retreats or inpatient treatments” relying on all of the above methods) treatments, which attempt to change an individual's sexual orientation from homosexual to heterosexual."
 * 2) "Since mainstream mental health organizations have rejected this position ["reparative therapy"], the more accurate term for therapeutic efforts to change homosexual orientation is sexual orientation conversion therapy, or simply, conversion therapy."
 * 3) "Sexual orientation change efforts – 'A range of techniques used by a variety of mental health professionals and non-professionals with the goal of changing sexual orientation' (APA, 2021c, p. 1). The term is gradually replacing conversion therapy in the professional literature because efforts to change someone’s sexual orientation do not qualify as therapy."
 * (full text available through The Wikipedia Library; book; Chap. 1.
 * 1) "Since mainstream mental health organizations have rejected this position ["reparative therapy"], the more accurate term for therapeutic efforts to change homosexual orientation is sexual orientation conversion therapy, or simply, conversion therapy."
 * 2) "Sexual orientation change efforts – 'A range of techniques used by a variety of mental health professionals and non-professionals with the goal of changing sexual orientation' (APA, 2021c, p. 1). The term is gradually replacing conversion therapy in the professional literature because efforts to change someone’s sexual orientation do not qualify as therapy."
 * (full text available through The Wikipedia Library; book; Chap. 1.
 * (full text available through The Wikipedia Library; book; Chap. 1.