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This article by Marc Solomon was originally published on November 28, in Salon. Read the full article here. Excerpted from Winning Marriage. One of the biggest challenges we were up against in getting the president to move was the conventional wisdom that coming out in support was still politically perilous. For some time now, national polls were showing support for the freedom to marry at greater than 50 percent.
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Please try again later. The dangers of gay conversion therapy. Washington: A year-old transgender youth, Leelah Alcorn, stunned her friends and a vast Internet audience in December when she threw herself in front of a tractor-trailer after writing in an online suicide note that religious therapists had tried to convert her back to being a boy. Credit: Reuters. In response, President Barack Obama this week will call for an end to such psychiatric therapies aimed at "repairing" gay, lesbian and transgender youth, White House officials said.
Obama Condemns 'Ex-Gay' Therapy for LGBTQ Minors
The statement, written by Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett, condemned the practice of minors undergoing "reparative" therapy meant to change their sexual orientation or gender presentation. The move is in response to a WhiteHouse. In her note, Alcorn wrote that her Christian parents refused to accept her true gender identity, telling her that "it was a phase" and that she "would never truly be a girl. Obama will not call for national legislation to end the practice but will support efforts to pass legislation banning it at the state level. In an interview with The New York Times , Jarrett elaborated on the president's decision to issue the statement in light of Alcorn's suicide.
The move comes in response to an online petition posted on the White House website following the death of year-old Leelah Alcorn. The transgender teen committed suicide in December and left behind writings mentioning religious therapy. In a statement late Wednesday, White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett said the administration supports banning so-called conversion therapy treatments for minors. The White House is not explicitly calling for congressional legislation to ban the therapies nationwide.
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