Youre picturing our studentcam winners and cspans documentary competition for middle and High School Students. This your students told us the most urgent issues for the new president and congress. Our second Price High School winners are 10thgraders from startups silver spring, maryland. Early mana, claire brooks, and are citizens of montgomery high school. The documentary on lgbtq conversion therapy is titled, brown had square. Lgbt was and converting there. This is an issue that is personal to all of our house. It is something that i feel like a lot of people do not think as much of an issue anymore, but as we discovered in doing our research for the video, this is a huge problem for a lot of activities. Video, it is only illegal in five states. It is incredible in 2017 that that is possible. We have a Vice President right now who has advocated for National Funds to be spent on conversion therapy. I can safely say that something that might make it. When i came out to my parents, there was a lot of initial physical abuse. Ive had friends who have experienced electrocution. , as late 20s, i went through an exorcism. I spent countless occasions in prayer, begging for the lord to make me straight. He never did. A roundyou try to slam peg into a square hole, something is going to give. Conversion therapy, also known as reparative therapy, or escape therapy, is a psychological treatment meant to transfer someones Sexual Orientation or identity. Is can evolve teambuilding exercise, to shock treatment. Most people who go through this are minors. Lgbt organizations and mainstream psychology are ineffective and unethical. Yet it is still legal in all but five states. There they are responding to their clients. We are available to help men and women who want to decrease their samesex attraction and develop their opposite sex potential. The clients should determine what they want. Its not my job as a clinician to tell the client how they should act. Survivors say otherwise. I was told that the government had come through and killed off average gay child when they were born. I was told that the reason they had done this was because every gay child had aids. I was told my god hated me. It was month after month of these horrible statements. Was placed in front of a table, my hands were put in ice, pictures of men were shown so i would associated look cold i was feeling with the image i was seeing. After that, wires were wrapped around my hands, he tore applied. Of men and women were shown. At the end, electric shocks. Into youry shoved body while pornographic images of men are shown. It was horrifying. They most often target kids under 18. These people give them what they claim is a solution. Supports an industry thats profiting off of the harm and sometimes death of a kid. Lgbt organizations say that conversion therapy is harmful, so does mainstream psychology. I am a clinical psychologist. We know that there is harm to people who go through conversion therapy. Medical Health Professional association has come out against this. The American Psychological association states, psychologists do not consider Sexual Orientation to be a conscious toy choice that can be changed. Is not an illness homosexuality is not an illness and does not require treatment. You cant treat a disorder that is not a disorder. When my boyfriend kisses me feel a little electric shock. Depression, suicide, alienation from families, increased drug abuse, nothing really good has come out. Many of the survivors i know have challenges with alcohol, smoking, drugs, because that is the coping mechanism. Is because of society, not because of who you are. Despite the facts, socalled escape groups maintain that changing ones sexuality is possible. I made a decision to come out next gayected into support group. The largest x gay ministry in the country, exodus international, shutdown 2013. We have told them they should feel ashamed, or that they should try to change these things that we have realized we cannot change. I believe that that causes all sorts of trauma. I know that there are people who have taken their lives because they felt so ashamed of who they are. If of god could love them as they are. Thats something that will haunt me until the day i die. Legal. As thats the worst part, what they were doing is technically legal. Just because something is legal to make it right. As of november 2016, only five states have passed laws against conversion therapy for minors. State legislation is not enough. Seven different pieces of legislation having or denouncing conversion therapy have been introduced to congress. Seven different pieces of legislation winning or denouncing conversion therapy has been introduced to congress but none of them have made it past committee. The most famous is and after a transgender girl who committed suicide in 2014 after going through conversion therapy. We will slog gathered 430 thousand signatures on two petitions and support from president obama, but never passed. Our message washington, lgbt is need federal protection. Conversion therapy needs to be banned. Thee are going to and harmful practice of socalled conversion therapy. [applause] lgbt kids dont need to be cured of anything. They just need to be accepted and embraced. We want you to know, you are not alone. In the end, you are being yourself. You are perfect your perfect self as you were born is the ultimate win. Watch all of the prize money documentaries, visit studentcam. Org. This week on q a. I learned the value of discourse and compromise. People i interact with whom i dont agree with has changed. 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I do find that is both the technical cyber that we have seen so much of the terms of Cyber Attacks from the russians and chinese, as well as the ,ontent influence type of thing which emerged in the last whatdential election with has been called, the cyber enabled influence operation. Believe, arengs i going to be the dominant form of warfare. Watch tonight at 9 00 eastern on cspan twos book tv. This week in primetime on cspan, monday at 8 00 eastern, former Senior Adviser to president barack obama, valerie jarrett, at a time at the white house and future plans. Am in a different phase of my life. I want to continue to be a force for good. Im signed on to be a pro bono advisor to the obama foundation. I am very just in what it can do. [applause] twostate 8 00 eastern, see kill a manual on his latest book. Bookhave predicted in my we will get rid of 1000 hospitals. We are taking care out of the four walls of the medical institutions and delivering it a home, and other facilities. 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