How anti-gay therapy destroyed one man's life and made another man's career.

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Therapy to change 'feminine' boy created a troubled man, family says

Los Angeles (CNN) -- Kirk Andrew Murphy seemed to have everything to live for. He put himself through school. He had a successful 8-year career in the Air Force. After the service, he landed a high profile position with an American finance companyin India.
But in 2003 at age 38, Kirk Murphy took his own life.
A co-worker found him hanging from the fan of his apartment in New Delhi. His family has struggled for years to understand what happened.

"I used to spend so much time thinking, why would he kill himself at the age of 38? It doesn't make any sense to me," said Kirk's sister, Maris Murphy. "What I now think is I don't know how he made it that long."
After Kirk's death, Maris started a search that would uncover a dark family secret. That secret revealed itself during a phone conversation with her older brother Mark, who mentioned his distrust of any kind of therapy.
"Don't you remember all that crap we went through at UCLA?" he asked her. Maris was too young to remember the details, but Mark remembered it vividly as a low point in their lives.

The video is pretty harrowing, and it's an absolutely horrible story.


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Chuchoter

The whole thing is terribly, terribly sad. To go after a 5 year old for something like that and to beat the living daylights out of him for it too. Its horrific. Theres another article on it here, its really long but its good.
http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/what-are-little-boys-made-of

diddlybit

God that was just horrible, worst thing is is that this kind of gender policing is still continuing. Reminds me of the John Money experiment which was the only time I ever cried reading an academic book.

The ex-gay movement is full of completely ludicrous "therapies" that verge on torture. I read an account of a guy who attended his own funeral in which he lay in a cofffin and the other patients pretended to be his friends and family discussing how disappointed they were with the way he had "chosen" to live his life. Creepy. The guy has spent more on therapy to undo the effects of the ex-gay therapy than he spent on attempting to de-gay himself.