@article{ed8ccea887a94d31b3a4f3070daecd76,
title = "Mis-education of Australian youth: exposure to LGBTQA+ conversion ideology and practises",
abstract = "Lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer and asexual (LGBTQA+) Australians are vulnerable to religion-based attempts to change or suppress their sexuality and/or gender identity, including conversion ideology messaging in school-based sex education. Conversion bans are currently being debated across the country. This paper reports on a critical survivor-driven study which retrospectively explored Australian LGBTQA+ youth exposure to conversion practices both within and outside of education settings. It privileges the perspectives of self-titled {\textquoteleft}survivors{\textquoteright} of conversion ideology and practices through the use of a reference group and constructivist grounded theory. Qualitative data were collected 20 from Australian LGBTQA+ conversion ideology and/or practice survivors aged 18 years and over, using focus groups and 35 individual interviews between 2016 and 2020. In conversion-promoting religious contexts including education institutions and groups, messages concerning sexuality and gender changed as individuals grew older and were drawn into more/enclosed settings in which core conversion messages of LGBTQA+ {\textquoteleft}brokenness{\textquoteright} were prevalent. While individuals progressed through the conversion experience in different ways, their experience was characterised by the absence of any form of affirming LGBTQA+ education – enabling conversion itself to become their LGBTQA+ (mis)information source. School policy addressing conversion, alongside enhanced provision of affirmative age-appropriate gender and sexuality education, may mediate this issue.",
keywords = "LGBT, sexuality, gender, change, suppression, therapy",
author = "Tiffany Jones and Jones, {Timothy W.} and Jennifer Power and Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli and Nathan Despott",
note = "Copyright the Author(s) 2021. Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author/s and according to publisher conditions. For further rights please contact the publisher.",
year = "2022",
month = sep,
day = "3",
doi = "10.1080/14681811.2021.1978964",
language = "English",
volume = "22",
pages = "595--610",
journal = "Sex Education",
issn = "1468-1811",
publisher = "Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group",
number = "5",
}