"The reason for my transgenderism was the fact that I didn’t feel like a man... doesn’t a person have the right to actually go and seek help to change their orientation if it’s causing them distress? Today it’s good … I feel secure in my masculinity. …. at this point in my life I’m happy being a man for the first time in a long time."
이러한 부분에서 어려움을 겪는 많은 사람들은 감정을 극복하기 위한 도움을 원합니다. 이는 건강이나 종교적 신념, 단순한 선호로 동기가 부여될 수 있습니다. 현재 이러한 사람들은 원치 않는 감정을 인정하는 것 외에 다른 서비스를 받을 수 없습니다. 많은 국가는 이에 관련된 상담이나 치료를 금지하고자 합니다. 동성애나 성전환의 이념을 수용하지 않으려는 사람들에게 공격적인 세속 문화 속에서 사람들은 갈 곳을 잃었습니다.
IFTCC는 “우선 제공자” 카운슬러를 제공하여 도움을 구하는 사람들을 지원하기 위해 설립되었습니다. 이러한 카운슬러들은 IFTCC의 지침과 윤리 강령을 준수하며 도움을 구하는 사람들에게 공감하는 이들입니다. 이들은 의뢰인의 자율성을 존중합니다.
저희는 경험을 갖춘 전세계 전문가들과 함께 필요한 사람들에게 지원을 제공합니다. 저희는 투명하고 책임감을 갖추고 있으며 전문적인 서비스를 촉진하는 지원 감독 네트워크에도 도움을 제공합니다.
사람들의 목소리
"There are indeed people who are critical of my journey. They don't agree, and they don't believe in change. I, however, respond that my life is more honest now."
"My gay affairs once worked for me like drugs work for an addict. I wanted to compensate my bad feelings …. Today I rather face my bad feelings."
"I wasn’t born with these desires but they grew as a result of bullying and exclusion as a teenager."
"I found that people who have decided to live as a homosexual got all the support they needed but the people that decided [to] change their lifestyle had no real help."
"It is ironic that a society that prides itself on individual liberty wants to enforce its values on others."
"They provide me tremendous assistance with unwanted same sex attraction and my mental, emotional and psychological health had improved remarkably."
"This therapy does not attempt to change an individual from being gay to being straight but rather it helps an individual heal from past hurts and fears."
"I have the right to pursue truth and happiness as I understand it; and that is what this therapy has allowed me to do."
"I find it unacceptable that bigoted, intolerant people are seeking to disallow others their truth and their happiness, by seeking to ban this type of therapy."
"'It is not the case that sexual orientation is immutable or might not vary to some extent in a person’s life.' Position Statement PS02/2014 April 2014"
"My abuse had occurred at an age of ego formation …. negating my normal sexual evolution as a heterosexual male, to be replaced with a sense of non-being, genderless, neither male nor female. [I] sought in vain to find happiness in gay-affirming society and active gay life over the course of 20 years."
"I do not identify with gay culture, and I don’t want to engage in gay life any more."
"It’s so unfortunate that it took me so long to get this ... therapy. It’s just exactly what I would have loved to have had in my late teens. It would have been the answer to all my questions."
