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To: The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): 2011 Review Conference Warsaw
From: Dr. Philip M. Sutton, PhD, International Federation for Therapeutic Choice (IFTC), USA
Date: October 4, 2011 : Working Session 13
Regarding: Tolerance and Nondiscrimination II
Intolerance and Discrimination Against Medical and Mental Health
Professionals, Researchers, and Educators Threaten the Freedoms of the Professionals and Those Whom They Serve
This intervention is being given on behalf of the International Federation for Therapeutic Choice (IFTC). The IFTC supports the rights of sexual minorities who have unwanted attractions, orientation, behavioral tendencies, behaviors, and/or identity to receive competent professional guidance and therapeutic care. The IFTC also supports the rights of medical and mental health professionals to offer that care (www.therapeutic-choice.org).
Central Recommendation to Participating States of the OSCE:
To draft legislation to safeguard the freedom of medical and mental health practitioners, educators, and researchers:
1. To study, publish, and educate other professionals and the public about the possible causes, consequences, and amelioration of sexual minority attractions, behaviors, orientations, and identities; and
2. To offer professional guidance and therapeutic expertise to persons whose sexual minority behaviors, orientations, and/or identities are unwanted and who freely choose help in order to overcome or diminish their unwanted sexual attractions and behaviors.
Some sexual minorities find their attractions, behavioral tendencies, behaviors, and/or identity unwanted. Some of these people freely choose or have freely chosen to seek professional guidance and therapeutic assistance to avoid basing their relational and sexual lives on their sexual minority attractions, behaviors, orientations, and/or identifications. More than one hundred years of...