Sexual identity or religious freedom: could conversion therapy ever be morally permissible in limited urgent situations?

IF 1.6 Q2 ETHICS Monash Bioethics Review Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Epub Date: 2021-07-20 DOI:10.1007/s40592-021-00132-6
Owen M Bradfield
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Conversion therapy refers to a range of unscientific, discredited and harmful heterosexist practices that attempt to re-align an individual's sexual orientation, usually from non-heterosexual to heterosexual. In Australia, the state of Victoria recently joined Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory in criminalising conversion therapy. Although many other jurisdictions have also introduced legislation banning conversion therapy, it persists in over 60 countries. Children are particularly vulnerable to the harmful effects of conversion therapy, which can include coercion, rejection, isolation and blame. However, if new biotechnologies create safe and effective conversion therapies, the question posed here is whether it would ever be morally permissible to use them. In addressing this question, we need to closely examine the individual's circumstances and the prevailing social context in which conversion therapy is employed. I argue that, even in a sexually unjust world, conversion therapy may be morally permissible if it were the only safe and effective means of relieving intense anguish and dysphoria for the individual. The person providing the conversion therapy must be qualified, sufficiently independent from any religious organisation and must provide conversion therapy in a way that is positively affirming of the individual and their existing sexuality.

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性别认同或宗教自由:在有限的紧急情况下,转化疗法在道德上是否被允许?
转化治疗指的是一系列不科学的、不可信的、有害的异性恋者的做法,这些做法试图重新调整一个人的性取向,通常是从非异性恋到异性恋。在澳大利亚,维多利亚州最近加入了昆士兰州和澳大利亚首都地区的行列,将转化治疗定为犯罪。虽然许多其他司法管辖区也制定了禁止转化治疗的立法,但它在60多个国家仍然存在。儿童特别容易受到转化治疗的有害影响,包括胁迫、拒绝、孤立和责备。然而,如果新的生物技术创造出安全有效的转化疗法,这里提出的问题是,使用它们在道德上是否被允许。在解决这个问题时,我们需要仔细检查个人的情况和采用转化治疗的主流社会背景。我认为,即使在一个性不公正的世界里,如果转化疗法是唯一安全有效的减轻个人强烈痛苦和不安的方法,那么它在道德上也是允许的。提供转化治疗的人必须是合格的,充分独立于任何宗教组织,并且必须以积极肯定个人及其现有性取向的方式提供转化治疗。
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期刊介绍: Monash Bioethics Review provides comprehensive coverage of traditional topics and emerging issues in bioethics. The Journal is especially concerned with empirically-informed philosophical bioethical analysis with policy relevance. Monash Bioethics Review also regularly publishes empirical studies providing explicit ethical analysis and/or with significant ethical or policy implications. Produced by the Monash University Centre for Human Bioethics since 1981 (originally as Bioethics News), Monash Bioethics Review is the oldest peer reviewed bioethics journal based in Australia–and one of the oldest bioethics journals in the world. An international forum for empirically-informed philosophical bioethical analysis with policy relevance. Includes empirical studies providing explicit ethical analysis and/or with significant ethical or policy implications. One of the oldest bioethics journals, produced by a world-leading bioethics centre. Publishes papers up to 13,000 words in length. Unique New Feature: All Articles Open for Commentary
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