Comments on: Doctors For Life — South Africa’ ex-gay medical propagandists http://www.truthwinsout.org/blog/2010/01/5721/ Fighting antigay lies and the ex-gay myth Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:34:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cobus Fourie http://www.truthwinsout.org/blog/2010/01/5721/comment-page-1/#comment-15889 Cobus Fourie Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:57:33 +0000 http://www.truthwinsout.org/?p=5721#comment-15889 I guess there's rotten apples everywhere. We have a nice little bigoted legal organisation here as well who masquerade as "protectors of justice" - it takes just a little digging in court records to connect the dots. We may have Constitutionally enshrined rights to equality and marriage equality but it takes considerable effort to maintain the status quo. I would not call this a utopian country because it is far from it, at least our Constitution authors were/are formidable people. I guess there’s rotten apples everywhere. We have a nice little bigoted legal organisation here as well who masquerade as “protectors of justice” – it takes just a little digging in court records to connect the dots.

We may have Constitutionally enshrined rights to equality and marriage equality but it takes considerable effort to maintain the status quo. I would not call this a utopian country because it is far from it, at least our Constitution authors were/are formidable people.

]]> By: Kate Dudgeon http://www.truthwinsout.org/blog/2010/01/5721/comment-page-1/#comment-15843 Kate Dudgeon Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:09:54 +0000 http://www.truthwinsout.org/?p=5721#comment-15843 It saddens me greatly to read something like this. Being a Medical Doctor myself, I can't say I'm surprised. Many, if not most of the senior doctors I have worked with have a warped perception of LGBTI people and issues. Most of them continue to view it as a psychiatric illness and this has, in my experience, a detrimental effect on the patients they treat as well as the gay doctors who train under them. I feel so very sad that my (supposedly noble) profession that weilds such power and should be a force for good in this world can be complicit in such evil. It saddens me greatly to read something like this. Being a Medical Doctor myself, I can’t say I’m surprised. Many, if not most of the senior doctors I have worked with have a warped perception of LGBTI people and issues. Most of them continue to view it as a psychiatric illness and this has, in my experience, a detrimental effect on the patients they treat as well as the gay doctors who train under them. I feel so very sad that my (supposedly noble) profession that weilds such power and should be a force for good in this world can be complicit in such evil.

]]> By: melanie nathan http://www.truthwinsout.org/blog/2010/01/5721/comment-page-1/#comment-15824 melanie nathan Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:00:31 +0000 http://www.truthwinsout.org/?p=5721#comment-15824 I am now an Aerican born in South Africa. Thanks for the work on this and the information. When I left SA there was apartheid . Now 25 years later SA has no apartheid and gay rights - where as AMerica has institutionalized discrimination vs, LGBT by enactment of DOMA - wahtan iriony. Melanie Nathan - writer for lezgetreal and oblogdeeoblogda. I am now an Aerican born in South Africa. Thanks for the work on this and the information. When I left SA there was apartheid . Now 25 years later SA has no apartheid and gay rights – where as AMerica has institutionalized discrimination vs, LGBT by enactment of DOMA – wahtan iriony. Melanie Nathan – writer for lezgetreal and oblogdeeoblogda.

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