” The law explicitly permits “counseling or mental health services that provide acceptance, support and understanding of a person without seeking to change gender identity or sexual orientation. For instance, a New Mexico bill signed into law in April 2017 defines “conversion therapy” as “any practice or treatment that seeks to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity, including any effort to change behaviors or gender expressions. Take this section, for example, from the 6th chapter:Īs of May 2017, eight states had enacted laws that bar health-care facilities from employing practices aimed at changing the sexual orientation or gender identity of minors, a practice often referred to as “conversion therapy”. All that I was being told and what I read, was so eye-opening. I took notes in the margins, I underlined sentences here and there. Anderson’s book which I previously mentioned, and I couldn’t get enough of it. I scored well on my finished essay, but I still wanted to research this subject more in depth, outside of school.

Craving for more information, I ordered the book off Amazon. Anderson, and I read that he had written a book: When Harry Became Sally: Responding To The Transgender Moment. After some search however, I came upon an article written by Ryan T. Being against the opinion that transgenderism is right, I had a hard time finding people and opinions that I could cite back to (which is practically necessary, in an APA-style essay.). I had to write an APA-style essay on my stand of Gender Dysphoria.

Anderson is the author of the book “ When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment“.Īs I took psychology last year, I began to research more in depth, transgenderism and the brain physiology behind it.

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