That doesn't mean a person seeking advice has to take the "advice" that a "professional" gives them as gospel. This person wanted that specific answer obviously, took it, and ran with it.
Not necessarily—see mass 55th post, #36.
One of the ****huge**** problems with the so-called anti-conversuon therapy stance is that we are not looking into alternative courses of actions and are in fact criminalizing those options.
What this man describes is going on all over. And it is particularly happening to teenage girls and young women.
Our youth deserve better than that. Our society whose next generation they are destroying deserve better than that.
Moderation and empathy are important. We can’t go so far in the direction of individual responsibility that we neglect people, especially those who need any type of help, including those who have been bamboozled by those whom society holds up as correct.