Agenda
XIII National Arcigay Congress
February 12-14, 2010
AGAINST REPARATIVE THERAPIES
Considering that
-over the years we have witnessed, in our country, the spread of groups and initiatives aimed at spreading the unscientific repartisan theory of homosexuality;
-some doctors, psychologists, and commentators promote this theory with very serious statements, contrary to professional ethics, psychological research, and long-standing diagnostic manuals. They make ideological statements that are absolutely unacceptable from a social, professional, and ethical perspective, going so far as to define homosexuality and transsexuality as "a pathology, an abnormality of sexuality, and therefore a disorder."
-the ecclesiastical hierarchy appears to favor and support the spread of these initiatives, to the detriment of many homosexual and transgender people who are subjected to family, personal, psychological, and social suffering because of such irresponsible statements capable of generating discrimination, rejection, contempt, and even violence.
The XIII National Arcigay Congress
commits the President, the Secretary, the National Secretariat and the National Council:
-to promote in every way conferences, studies, publications, and initiatives aimed at countering these theories, which deny the positions taken by the World Health Organization and the international scientific community, and which are characterized by a pathological, behavioral, and sexual reconstruction of homosexuality and transsexuality, denying their authentic and natural "orientation" and their affective dimension;
-to collaborate with the academic, scientific and sociological world to break down the stereotypes and ideological preconceptions that constitute the social basis of such aberrant theories;
- to establish a coordination table between Arcigay, the representatives of the professional associations, and the scientific and academic world to foster the development of strategies to combat and promote a correct approach to the reality of LGBT people.
Luca Trentini (Brescia) – Paolo Patanè (Catania) – Alessandro Tosarelli (Rimini) – Rosario Murdica (Bologna) – Flavio Romani (Ferrara) – Francesco Piomboni (Florence) – Matteo Pegoraro (Florence) – Stefano Bucaioni (Perugia) – Marco Coppola (Verbania) – Damiano Tradigo (Verbania) – Sandro Mattioli (Bologna) – Luca Pandini (Bergamo) – Giovanni Caloggero (Catania) – Rebecca Zini (Milan)
ODG approved by the XIII National Congress of Arcigay
with the recommendation of the Health Commission to never provide a discussion plan that legitimises the debatable nature of topics that from a scientific point of view have already had a response from the relevant bodies
