Since I was a junior school student, the
people who were homosexual came to my real life. Until now, there are about 10
gays especially lesbians who are my friends. And from that time, I began to pay
attention to the genders of society and read a lot of information about it. And
I see this article. As Dr. Robert L. Spitzer apologized, I considered that homosexual
will get increasingly identities from society. And homosexual is not a disease
and shouldn’t be cured.
Dr. Robert L. Spitzer is considered to be
the father of modern psychiatry. He has found 200 gay people for his Reparative
Therapy experiment and delivered a controversial essay in the 2001’s APA meeting
named "Partial gay men and women can change their sexual orientation?"
and has been rejected by APA, for the reason "No published scientific
evidence in support of repair therapy to change one's sexual orientation really
has curative effect." Though he removed homosexuality from the manual of
mental disorders, he still continued his experiment to prove that homosexual
could be cured. Until a WHO report, released on Thursday, calls the therapy “a
serious threat to the health and well-being — even the lives — of affected
people.” He began to think that maybe the people of his experiment didn’t being
honest or only become to bisexual. And finally, he fell in regret and
apologized for his research with almost his whole life.
In my opinion, homosexual is not a mental
disease. As I know from a lecture, there are 5 kind of sex in the society——born of
man, born of woman, IS and psychological man, psychological woman. The inborn
sex and the mental gender permutation and combination derive many kinds of sexual orientation.
And homosexual is really a simple one than some other relationship.
There are amount of gays or lesbians whose
mental is quite health, yet there are also some homosexual who falls into inquietude
even crazy. I think it should be supposed that they are affected by the social
environment and family. At the mention of my lesbian friends, they are in some
quite different states. To pick up two of them for an example, A and B, they
are quite different because of their different states. A fell in love with her
senior school teacher and when she graduated from her university, she began to
be in business and changed her nationality into American and got married with
her teacher. After that, they have had a baby this year and after all, it is
impossible without the support of her families. Whatever, B loves a girl who
came to Japan for study abroad. She intended to come to Japan with us friends,
but the relationship was perceived by her mother. Her mother said that if she
didn’t change her sexual orientation, she would be out of the house and cut
off economic source. Finally, she went to Australia for study and made a
boy-friend just for not to be spurn, even if she is still a lesbian in her
mental. As we all know, almost Chinese youth who are under-graduate don’t have
the ability to live even to pay the high tuition.
According to the two cases, it is extremely
possible that homosexual seems to change to straight but actually they are just
afraid of the public opinion and try to disguise the pain of being straight. So
that the therapy maybe cause some problems and even cause the suicide.
There are also some of my lesbian friends who have changed to
straight. I think the reason of their have-been homosexual is also obvious.
Nowadays in China, the amount of homosexual teenagers increases quickly
especially girls. I think some of them are just afraid of the regulations of schools
that making relationship is forbidden even in mental. But most of the schools
choose to ignore the students who are in homosexual relationship. It makes some
girls afraid of punishment and just far away from boys and be with girls. When
this kind of girls graduated from high-school, they find they are straight but
not gay.
At last, even if the experts admit that homosexual is not a disease,
it needs times for the whole society to accept the existing of homosexual.
People should to be more tolerant for the variety of human not only homosexual.
It is important to understand the people who are little difference from many
would, because the differences don’t equal to wrong.
connect: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/19/health/dr-robert-l-spitzer-noted-psychiatrist-apologizes-for-study-on-gay-cure.html?pagewanted=1&ref=health
One point of correction, though Dr. Spitzer may be considered an influential psychiatrist, I think most people would not consider him the father of modern psychiatry, as you have indicated. The actual wording in the NY Times article are as follows: "...considered by some to be the father of modern psychiatry..." In other words, some people--perhaps just a few, perhaps many, but certainly not a majority--consider him the father of modern psychiatry.
回复删除You seem to be open minded and liberal about your views of other people's sexual orientation, as I am. The attitude about homosexuality in China that you describe is quite similar to the attitude in America. Some people are closed minded and biased. They don't understand or are afraid of people who are not like them, whether the people are of a different race, religion, sexual orientation, or whatever. Other people are open minded and accepting of people are not exactly like them. In America, many more young people are accepting of others whatever their sexual orientation is while older people are biased against gays and lesbians. I am guessing the situation in China is similar. Is it?