Drescher said people can have reasons to keep sexual or gender identities and behaviors, such as cross-dressing, secret because they don’t feel like they would be accepted.
Pastor's suicide brings grief, warnings of the dangers of outing amid erosion of LGBTQ+ rights
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“The mental health mainstream believes that one, that these practices don’t really work, and two, that they may cause harm,” said Dr. Jack Drescher, a Columbia University psychiatry professor and editor of the chapter on gender dysphoria in the psychiatric association's diagnostic manual.
In Iowa and elsewhere, bans on LGBTQ+ 'conversion therapy' become a conservative target
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