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Image source, AP. More on this story. In the correspondence, Obama wrote: “In regard to homosexuality, I must say that I believe this is an attempt to remove oneself from the present, a refusal perhaps to perpetuate the endless farce. The petition was inspired by Leelah Alcorn, a year-old transgender youth who killed herself in December.

While running for the Illinois Senate, Obama signs a questionnaire for a gay Chicago publication saying he favors legalizing same-sex marriages. She ended her note with a plea: "The only way I will rest in peace is if one day transgender people aren't treated the way I was My death needs to mean something.

Obama, then 21, wrote to Alex McNear in. Mr Obama's statement was in response to an online petition , external calling for a ban on conversion therapies. People go to therapy because they can change, because it really does work," David Pickup, a family therapist in California and Texas, told the New York Times , external.

In the letter posted on Tumblr, Ms Alcorn said she killed herself after years of struggling with her strict Christian parents' refusal to acknowledge her true identity as a female. A transgender teen's last note. Counselling and prayer is used in conversion therapy to help some Christians deal with gay feelings.

While the White House is not explicitly calling for congressional legislation to ban the therapies nationwide, Mara Keisling, the executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, welcomed Mr Obama's statement. But mental health groups and gay rights activists say it can increase the risk of depression or suicide.

Some conservative groups and religious doctors support conversion therapy. Image source, Courtesy of Abigail Jones. US President Barack Obama has condemned psychiatric therapies designed to "repair" gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth. It gained over , signatures in three months.

But six years after former President Barack Obama left office, some conservative media figures aggressively circulated a salacious rumor: that Obama is secretly gay. He later wins the race. But other conservative states such as Oklahoma are considering legislation to protect the therapies from legal challenges.

Former President Barack Obama's gay sex fantasy was revealed in a newly obtained letter to his ex girlfriend, acquired by The New York Post. How tide turned on same-sex marriage. Vigils were held after Ms Alcorn's suicide in December. Fix society. He alters.