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The American Psychological Association, representing 157,000 members, has issued a resolution calling for an end to trans care bans and misinformation around care.
The American Psychological Association is embarking on its first review of a 10-year-old policy on counseling gays and lesbians, a step that gay rights activists hope will end with a denunciation of any attempt by therapists to change a client's sexual orientation.
The APA stands by gay parents after a seemingly biased report calls into question LGBT child-rearing abilities.
The American Psychological Association has updated its policies to reflect new research.
More and more research shows that stress is severely harming people, especially minorities targeted for discrimination. Clinton Anderson of the American Psychological Association tells us what needs to be done.
The organization Truth Wins Out held a press conference today outside the American Psychological Association's annual convention in New Orleans to counter a coalition of antigay protesters seeking to have homosexuality relabeled a mental disorder.
Silverstein, who died Monday, helped end the definition of homosexuality as a mental illness and wrote extensively about gay life.
While James Dobson's Focus on the Family continues to cherry-pick and distort research on LGBT families, Soulforce and Truth Wins Out are raising the stakes to expose what they call a harmful and alarming disinformation campaign discriminating against LGBT families.
Psychologist Paul Cameron, who has been accused of doctoring his research to promote his antigay agenda, is at it again, this time with a study that links homosexuality to drunk driving.
Former psychologist Paul Cameron (pictured), whose discredited research is used by antigay groups, has published another set of phony statistics--but this time in a legitimate, if not widely known academic journal.
Those who subject minors to the procedure may face discipline, they warn.
“You can’t just wave it away and say, ‘Oh, these are made up terms so they’re no good,’” one linguist said. “All language is made up, and it’s made up because we have a need to say things.”
The Prevention of Emotional Neglect and Childhood Endangerment -- or PENCE -- would block the harmful practice of trying to "change" the sexual orientation or gender identity of LGBT minors in New York's Erie County.
