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Invited Panel

Trans/Gender Health

Session: Reckoning With Our Past: An Update from Behavior Therapy’s Editorial Task Force on Addressing the SOGIECE Literature

Invited Panel: Reckoning with Our Past: An Update from Behavior Therapy’s Editorial Task Force on Addressing the SOGIECE Literature

Friday, November 17, 2023
8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PST
Location: Columbia A, Level 3
Sexual orientation and gender identity/expression change efforts (SOGIECEs) are a set of discredited and ineffective practices that pose serious risks of harm to exposed individuals. The APA and other professional governing bodies have passed clear resolutions against such so-called “conversion therapy,” and the majority of U.S. states now have prohibitory laws banning SOGIECEs. Nonetheless, SOGIECE practices persist. As ABCT and the fields of behavioral and cognitive therapies reckon with their significant roles played in the historic development and promotion of these practices–which continue to cause untold harms to this day–the Editor of Behavior Therapy organized a 14-member task force to collectively determine whether and what actions to take on SOGIECE articles published in the journal (i.e., “Behavior Therapy Editorial Task Force on Addressing the SOGIECE Literature”). For this symposium, five Task Force members will provide an overview of the Task Force’s formation and missions and describe its procedural rules and decision-making thresholds. Panelists will describe the Task Force’s major discussions, debates, and deliberations, the outcomes of Task Force votes, editorial actions taken, and next steps. The symposium will conclude with opportunities for audience questions and input, and recommendations for reducing the likelihood of similar future harms to other communities.

This session does not offer continuing education credit.