(October 16, 2021 at 9:42 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:(October 16, 2021 at 2:37 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Big Gay bribed the entire medical establishment, he already told you. What more is there to say?
(October 16, 2021 at 3:46 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: But I want him to explain how they ended up on the list of recognized mental disorders in the first place.
From what I understand, it happened because professionals realised that just treating homosexuality as a deviant behaviour wasn't helping the people who did it. Of course, eventually the APA removed it as a diagnosis in 1973, largely because they realised it didn't necessarily have to be a problem and the vast majority of the trouble could be averted if straight people learned to tolerate them. And, bear in mind, at the time, between 4 and 7 of the 50 states had legalised it (I could find neither the date the APA made their decision nor the dates Delaware, Hawaii, and North Dakota repealed their sodomy laws). 1/10 of the nation's population lived in a jurisdiction where homosexuality was legal, so I doubt that the gay lobby was that powerful.
Wrong time frame, the quote speaking of lobbying was in reference to the change of Gender identity being labeled as a disorder in 2012.