- Siblings: Gay brother killed himself decades after treatment to make him more masculine
- Treatment included withholding maternal attention and punishment
- Ex-clinic psychologist: It’s “inaccurate to assume” therapy caused Kirk Murphy’s suicide
Read more at : Therapy to change ‘feminine’ boy created a troubled man, family says
This story makes me so angry and sad. It cannot be proved that his suicide was related to the so-called “therapy” but even without the suicide as a tragic end, what he went through as a kid is horrible. I am also not sympathetic to the mother. It sounds like she is trying to lay the blame at the door of the therapists, as if she had no choice in the matter. She chose to see her son as abnormal and she chose to take him to therapy for it and she chose to follow their bizarre system and I assume she was not averse to the beatings he went through. So now why is she acting like she had no part in it?
I could not understand how the person could not have been trans.
The story leaves me shaking my head in pity, nay disbelief… Got the paper and read it up…..And am just left with numbness…