Dr Joseph Nicolosi - the third and last instalment of an ongoing horror story

This is part 3 of CNN's report about the "Sissy Boy" experiment, performed on a 5 year old boy by Dr George Rekers. In this part, Ryan Kendall tells of his "treatment" in the hands of Dr Joseph Nicolosi, a leading "light" of the notorious NARTH. He not only claims to have kept hundreds of kids from growing up gay, but is adamant that the treatment is both effective and does no harm.

Unfortunately, I am no stranger to practitioners whose role is to help but who are able to delude themselves about the suffering they are causing (or turn a blind eye?) in line with their own prejudices. What I don't understand is how such child abuse is left unchecked. Drugs are tested and retested for years before they are licensed for use. However, when it comes to the mental health of our children, it's a completely different story. Children grow up into adults, formed by whatever has or hasn't been done to them. Damage leaves everlasting scars, but there seems to be little or no protection to prevent this from happening. What kind of society are we living in if this kind of child abuse is allowed to continue? Isn't it time that our legislators stopped kowtowing to blatantly homophobic organisations and started to protect us from harm?