arlesiana:

mysterystuckabbix:

sipdre:

sipdre:

i don’t know if people outside of brazil are aware of this, but our country just decriminalized

gay conversion therapy. basically, it is now 100% legal for therapists to treat homosexuality as a disease if they want to.

btw here are are some sources to read more about it (they’re all in portuguese): 1, 2, 3, 4.

we need more people talking about this on the media.

please reblog this, especially if you’re not brazilian. 

reminder that this is NOT FORCED TREATMENT

and instead a choice.

Yeah it’s weird for gay people to see themselves as sick, but as long as they aren’t being FORCED TO it’s not AS BAAAD

It’s still shocking tho

There are things you are not considering:

1) The majority of patients that will be on this kind of treatment won’t be adults, but minors coerced by religious parent. This treatmant has no age restriction, meaning conservative parents can (and will, if given the chance) enforce gay convertion therapy on minors regardless of their choices. This is not only a matter of homophobia, but also a matter of child abuse. Pretending minors won’t be the majority of the victims is dirty and irresponsible.

2) Even in a scenario where this treatment would somehow be limited to gay people who were not forced by any means to seek it, it is still REALLY BAD. Gay conversion theraphy can involve rape, psychological and physical torture, among other inhuman methods, which makes it fundamentally a violation of the
Article 3 (“Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.”) and Article 5 (“No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.”) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. On top of that, it has no
(scientifically proven) effiency: since “homosexuality” is not a disease (it stopped being considered as such by the World Health Organization and by Brazil’s Federal Council of Psycology in the 90s), there is nothing to be cured. So, we are basically talking about a law that would allow professionals to sell their patients inhuman and ineffective “treatments” to fake diseases, based solely on religion and prejudice.

This has nothing to do with “individual liberties” – no professional should be allowed to provide such treatments. Patients may believe they want it – believe me, as a gay person, I understand living in conservative and religious enviroments can cause a lot of fear self-hatred. But therapists are supposed to know better than patients, that’s why they spend years of their lives studying. They are the people capable of helping patients deal or accept some parts of their lives, not offer torture as a cure for a disease that doesn’t exist. And it is the role of the Federal Council of Psycology to ensure that, to patients and to the society as a whole. A single judge has no right to overrule a decision based on research, international treaties and the human rights declaration over the legal action of a evangelical christian psycologist who had her license revoked last year for offering a conversion therapy service not based not on scientifical research or consistent data, but solely on religious beliefs.

Saying it’s not “BAAAD” is actually the argument of a considerable part of the Brazilian right-wing as for now. They are trying to deceive people into thinking this is a matter of individual liberty and not a matter of protecting the integrity and the human rights of LGBT+ people, especially LGBT+ youth.