Connect
MJA
MJA

Reflection on a personal experience of surviving contemporary conversion practices in Australia

S Whyte
Med J Aust 2022; 217 (3): . || doi: 10.5694/mja2.51515
Published online: 9 May 2022

Identifying and protecting people from conversion practices is an ethical obligation for health care professionals

I knew I was gay in high school. There was no confusion or struggle internally, I just was. The pain came from trying to work out what to do about it. Unfortunately, I was exposed to many complex and conflicting ideas about what being gay meant for me and my life.




Correspondence: 

Competing interests:

No relevant disclosures.

Author

remove_circle_outline Delete Author
add_circle_outline Add Author

Comment
Do you have any competing interests to declare? *

I/we agree to assign copyright to the Medical Journal of Australia and agree to the Conditions of publication *
I/we agree to the Terms of use of the Medical Journal of Australia *
Email me when people comment on this article

Online responses are no longer available. Please refer to our instructions for authors page for more information.