# Objection to involuntary gay-conversion therapy or voluntary

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objection-to-involuntary-gay-conversion-therapy-or-voluntary/820169>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [August 24, 2018, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objection-to-involuntary-gay-conversion-therapy-or-voluntary/820169 "2018-08-24T06:08:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2018, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objection-to-involuntary-gay-conversion-therapy-or-voluntary/820169/79 "2018-08-29T17:49:17Z")

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> [@rock\_party](#):
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> I’ve not heard of any conversion therapy that didn’t have a religious antagonist.

A few are noted in [this decade-old thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=541480). But I think the best response to “are there non-religious gay conversion initiatives” is this:

> [@Non religious gay conversion?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-religious-gay-conversion/519018/4):
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> Pretty much all of organized psychiatry prior to homosexuality’s removal from the DSM in the 1970s.

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