"Heterophobia"? A double standard? Or a chip on some shoulders?

"Heterophobia"? A double standard? Or a chip on some shoulders?If someone who has always thought of him or herself as straight should start doubting his or her sexuality and want help from a therapist is dealing with a transition to identifying as gay, that's okay. It is terrific that there are mental health practitioners ready to help such folks in coming out of the closet!

But if someone who has always thought of him or herself as gay should start doubting his or her sexuality and want help from a therapist in dealing with a transition to identifying as straight, that is bad. Any therapist who would attempt to help someone with that transition is a quack and deserves the scorn of all in the right-thinking gay community!

Am I understanding the party line correctly?

Answer by FTW
No. You are not understanding. Anything.

Answer by answer man
You understand very well that this issue is a highly charged politicized quagmire. Gays have a powerful lobby in government, education and in science. Government seeks to afford them protections higher than other citizens with hate crime legislation. Education has allowed gay activists to have input in class content, to hold rallys and to have days honoring gays. Now "science" in the form of the American Psychiatric Association seeks to normalize homosexuality (which they once considered a diagnosed disorder) while other scientists seek to find the "gay gene" and when they don't find it, they spin their research and tell us it "suggests" a gay gene.

Answer by Maya
Any good, reputable therapist would seek only to help the patient work through the confusion, regardless of the sexual orientation with which the patient identified or wish to identify.

Any therapist who tries to convert someone from one sexual orientation to another is a quack.

It's that simple.

Answer by behrmark63
I know of very few gay people who "doubt" their sexuality.

If you're referring to those "ex-gay programs," I think you're confusing "doubting sexuality" to societal pressure from family, friends, church, etc.

And for the record...if Ted Haggard is now "straight" - I'm the Queen of England.

Answer by tikhacoffee
Therapists who attempt to help a person dealing with a transition is NOT bad. One who attempts to COERSE him or her because they think that it NEEDS to be changed because they are DISEASED, THAT is bad. And I think that is the stand of the gay community as well!

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