New laws that prohibit conversion therapy pose no material risk to evidence-based and clinically appropriate practice.

Ryan, CJ; Callaghan, S

New laws that prohibit conversion therapy pose no material risk to evidence-based and clinically appropriate practice.

Ryan, CJ Callaghan, S

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Publisher:: SAGE Publications
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Australas Psychiatry, 2022, 30, (3), pp. 362-363
Issue Date:: 2022-06

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dc.contributor.author	Ryan, CJ
dc.contributor.author	Callaghan, S https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6904-4402
dc.date.accessioned	2023-06-26T05:26:12Z
dc.date.available	2023-06-26T05:26:12Z
dc.date.issued	2022-06
dc.identifier.citation	Australas Psychiatry, 2022, 30, (3), pp. 362-363
dc.identifier.issn	1039-8562
dc.identifier.issn	1440-1665
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/170878
dc.description.abstract	OBJECTIVE: To examine the extent to which the Sexuality and Gender Identity Conversion Practices Act 2020 (ACT) and Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Act 2021 (Vic) might pose a risk to evidence-based and clinically appropriate practice. METHOD: Using a recent publication by Parkinson and Morris as a starting point, the provisions of the new legislation are carefully examined. RESULTS: The ACT and Victorian laws do not imperil psychiatrists undertaking evidence-based and clinically appropriate practice. CONCLUSIONS: While it may be wise for psychiatrists to abandon this area of practice if they hold strong personal beliefs that the failure to identify with one's natal gender is morally wrong, nothing in the new laws should deter psychiatrists from providing people with gender dysphoria with evidence-based and clinically appropriate care.
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dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	SAGE Publications
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dc.subject	11 Medical and Health Sciences, 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
dc.subject.classification	Psychiatry
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dc.subject.mesh	Gender Dysphoria
dc.subject.mesh	Gender Identity
dc.subject.mesh	Humans
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dc.subject.mesh	Sexual Behavior
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dc.subject.mesh	Gender Identity
dc.subject.mesh	Psychiatry
dc.subject.mesh	Female
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dc.subject.mesh	Gender Dysphoria
dc.subject.mesh	Female
dc.subject.mesh	Gender Dysphoria
dc.subject.mesh	Gender Identity
dc.subject.mesh	Humans
dc.subject.mesh	Male
dc.subject.mesh	Psychiatry
dc.subject.mesh	Sexual Behavior
dc.subject.mesh	Sexuality
dc.title	New laws that prohibit conversion therapy pose no material risk to evidence-based and clinically appropriate practice.
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OBJECTIVE: To examine the extent to which the Sexuality and Gender Identity Conversion Practices Act 2020 (ACT) and Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Act 2021 (Vic) might pose a risk to evidence-based and clinically appropriate practice. METHOD: Using a recent publication by Parkinson and Morris as a starting point, the provisions of the new legislation are carefully examined. RESULTS: The ACT and Victorian laws do not imperil psychiatrists undertaking evidence-based and clinically appropriate practice. CONCLUSIONS: While it may be wise for psychiatrists to abandon this area of practice if they hold strong personal beliefs that the failure to identify with one's natal gender is morally wrong, nothing in the new laws should deter psychiatrists from providing people with gender dysphoria with evidence-based and clinically appropriate care.

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