Appropriate ✰ Conversion Therapy ✰ Kamala Harris + the Gays

Queer Enough Club

Trigger warnings: conversion therapy; mental, physical, sexual, and emotional abuse; suicide, depression, PTSD; substance abuse

Skip ahead to 14:30 to bypass the segment on conversion therapy.

This episode, join me for a deep and difficult dive into what conversion therapy actual entails. I have never supported conversion therapy, but after doing this research, I find myself significantly more vocal on the dangers of it.

After that, we look at Kamala Harris’s track record within the LGBTQIA+ community — we may be looking at a Harris presidency; you should have the facts you need to make an informed vote.

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Sources:

Conversion Therapy

• https://www.hrc.org/resources/the-lies-and-dangers-of-reparative-therapy
• https://www.webmd.com/sex-relationships/what-is-conversion-therapy
• https://www.lgbtmap.org/equality-maps/conversion_therapy
• https://www.lgbtmap.org/policy-spotlight-conversion-therapy-bans
• https://www.thetrevorproject.org/conversion-therapy-report/
• https://www.banconversiontherapy.com/ + Stories
• https://mashable.com/article/conversion-therapy-experience
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8902017/
• https://www.ohchr.org/en/stories/2020/07/conversion-therapy-can-amount-torture-and-should-be-banned-says-un-expert
• https://www.stonewall.org.uk/everything-you-need-know-about-conversion-therapy
• https://time.com/2986440/sexual-conversion-therapy-gay/
• https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/explainer-what-is-conversion-therapy/
• https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-gay-conversion-therapy/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_therapy#:~:text=Methods that have been used,%2C psychoanalysis%2C and arousal reconditioning.
• https://www.yalelawjournal.org/article/covering
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_International
• https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/conversion-therapy-provider-must-dissolve-pay-millions-judge-rules-n1016856
• https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2019-06-14/ty-article/jewish-gay-conversion-group-operating-under-new-name-ordered-to-shut-down/0000017f-e718-dc7e-adff-f7bd23fc0000

Kamala Harris’s LGBTQIA+ Track Record

• https://19thnews.org/2020/08/kamala-harris-complicated-lgbtq-choice/
• https://glaad.org/joe-biden-announces-kamala-harris-his-running-mate-here-where-she-stands-lgbtq-issues/
• https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/07/kamala-harris-california-background/
• https://www.advocate.com/politics/kamala-harris-lgbtq-record
• https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/kamala-harris-slams-lawmaking-extremists-lgbtq-pride-event-rcna91858
• https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/26/nyregion/kamala-harris-stonewall-inn-lgbtq-rights.html
• https://www.gaytimes.com/life/a-short-history-of-kamala-harris-support-for-the-lgbtq-community/
• https://www.washingtonblade.com/2015/05/05/harris-renews-effort-to-block-gender-reassignment-for-trans-inmate/
• https://www.advocate.com/election/2019/9/20/kamala-harris-denying-gender-affirmation-surgery-trans-inmates
• https://www.out.com/news-opinion/2019/1/22/kamala-harris-takes-responsibility-opposing-trans-surgeries
• https://www.washingtonblade.com/2019/01/21/harris-takes-full-responsibility-for-briefs-against-surgery-for-trans-inmates/