Statement on conversion therapy
| Autor: | Matthis Schick, James C. Lin, Jose Quiroga, Vincent Iacopino, Onder Ozkalipci, Rusudan Beriashvili, Peter Mygind Leth, Morris Tidball-Binz, Jens Modvig, Jason Payne-James, Peter Vanezis, Jonathan Beynon, Şebnem Korur Fincancı, Bettina Birmanns, Lilla Hardi, Duarte Nuno Viera, Said Louahlia, Marie Brasholt, Valeria Moscoso, Antti Sajantila, Sana Hamzeh, Felicitas Treue, Hege Luytkis, Juliet Cohen, Sidsel Rogde, Maria-Dolores Morcillo Mendez, Adriaan Van Es, Maximo Duque, Jørgen Lange Thomsen, Djordje Alempijevic, Resmiye Oral, Alejandro Moreno, Hernán Reyes, Michele Heisler, Pierre Duterte, Ravindra Fernando, Steen Holger Hansen, Agis Terzidis |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Human Rights
United Nations Torture Statement (logic) Health Personnel education Pathology and Forensic Medicine 03 medical and health sciences Professional Role 0302 clinical medicine Punishment Nursing Health care Humans 030216 legal & forensic medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Conversion therapy Set (psychology) health care economics and organizations business.industry Pain and suffering Gender Identity Homosexuality General Medicine Mental health Antidepressive Agents humanities Psychotherapy Sexual orientation business Psychology Law Antipsychotic Agents |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine. 72:101930 |
| ISSN: | 1752-928X |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jflm.2020.101930 |
| Popis: | Conversion therapy is a set of practices that aim to change or alter an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity. It is practiced in every region of the world by health professionals, religious practitioners, and community or family members often by or with the support of the state. Conversion therapy is performed despite evidence that it is ineffective and likely to cause individuals significant or severe physical and mental pain and suffering with long-term harmful effects. The purpose of this medico-legal statement is to provide legal experts, adjudicators, health care professionals, and policy makers, among others, with an understanding of: 1) the lack of medical and scientific validity of conversion therapy; 2) the likely physical and psychological consequences of undergoing conversion therapy; and 3) whether, based on these effects, conversion therapy constitutes cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or torture when individuals are subjected to it forcibly or without their consent. This medico-legal statement also addresses the responsibility of states in regulating the practice, the ethical implications of offering or performing it, and the role that health professionals and medical and mental health organisations should play with regards to it. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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