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June 7th, 2011
Part 7: Skirting the Issues It’s one thing to follow your family doctor’s advice. But very few mothers can say that they learned how to raise kids using scientifically-proven methods from a world-class institution backed by funding from at least six major clinical research grants from the National Institute of Mental Health.93 Those are some […]
June 7th, 2011
One of the more surprising aspects of this investigation has been the question of who was ultimately responsible for Kirk’s treatment at the UCLA Gender Identity Clinic’s experimental treatment program for children. Before the Murphy family decided to come forward, the answer seemed so obvious that few thought to question it. All of the published […]
June 7th, 2011
Part 6: The Tug Of War Kirk graduated from high school in 1983. That same year, the Murphy family lost their home and rented a smaller house. Kirk went to work at the meat counter at a local IGA. He hated having to handle meat, but the money helped to pay rent and buy groceries […]
June 7th, 2011
Part 5: “No One Was Obviously Harmed” When Kirk was seventeen, Dr. Green flew to Montana to conduct a follow-up evaluation. That’s the visit Maris remembers, of Green in the living room with a tape recorder and wearing a tweed jacket. “Before he left,” Kaytee said, “he assured me that Kirk was perfectly okay. No […]
June 7th, 2011
Mark not only lost his brother, but he also believes that at the age of eight years old, he was unwittingly enlisted as an accomplice in Kirk’s treatment. Here is Mark’s statement. Truly, I am amazed that supposedly educated people in the field of mental health could actually buy into the idea that any child […]
June 7th, 2011
In general, the picture of the fathers of gender-disturbed children found in these data is in sharp contrast to the image of the idealized father who promotes masculinity in his sons through his psychological and physical presence, his active involvement with his children and the family decision-making, his dominance and his nurturance. … When a […]
June 7th, 2011
Kraig was five years old, from an intact middle-class family with an older brother of eight years and an infant sister of nine months. On a daily basis, he exhibited many feminine arm and hand mannerisms, body gestures and gait. These were so exaggerated and pronounced that they resembled almost a caricature of adult femininity. […]
June 7th, 2011
But the psychological maladjustment of the gender-disturbed child goes beyond mere social rejection from the peer group, because it involves the elements of unhappiness, obsessive-compulsive trends, isolation and withdrawal, negativistic behavior, detachment, inability to form close interpersonal peer relationships, and low self-esteem. The gender disturbance therefore constitutes a psychological distortion in itself and generates the […]
June 7th, 2011
Last October, Maris learned that her late brother Kirk had been a well-known case study for UCLA’s behavioral modification program for suspected “prehomosexual” children. Kirk’s case had been hailed as a huge success, but his family today is still searching for meaning. This is Maris’s statement. As a parent, I agree with my mother that […]
June 7th, 2011
After Kirk’s funeral in India, family and friends gathered in Phoenix for a memorial service. Debbie, Kirk’s ex-wife and lifelong friend, delivered this eulogy: I’m Debbie Murphy and this is Tim Lee and we have been given the honor to speak here today on behalf of a very important group in Kirk’s life — his friends. […]
June 7th, 2011
Red and blue standard poker chips were used as ‘tokens’. The blue tokens, which came to serve as secondary positive reinforcers (Sr+), could be directly exchanged by Kraig for the ‘back-up reinforcers’ according to a ‘price list’ set by the mother (e.g., five blue tokens were required for a candy bar). The red tokens (Sr-) […]
June 7th, 2011
A scholarship fund has been established in Kirk Andrew Murphy’s memory: Kirk A Murphy HHS Memorial Scholarship Fund c/o MorganStanley SmithBarney 1233 Northwood CTR Coeur D’Alene, Idaho 83814 In 1970, a well-known expert on homosexuality and transgender issues appeared on a local television talk show in Los Angeles to talk about feminine boys. He described […]
June 6th, 2011
TODAY’S AGENDA (OURS): Education Dept. LGBT Youth Summit: Washington, D.C. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will hold its first ever LGBT Youth Summit today, beginning at 8:30. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will give the opening remarks this morning, Keven Jennings, assistant deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Safe […]
June 5th, 2011
Today marks the thirtieth anniversary of the Centers for Disease Control’s publication of a mysterious set of illnesses which took the lives of five gay men in Los Angeles. AIDS had been swirling around unnoticed since the 1930s, and doctors in Europe and Africa began to notice that people were falling victim to a host […]
June 3rd, 2011
Virginia Delegate Robert G. Marshall (R-Prince William) sent a letter to the Richmond Federal Reserve Bank demanding that they remove the rainbow flag that is flying outside the building in honor of Pride month: In a letter to Richmond Fed President Jeffrey M. Lacker, Marshall says the homosexual behavior “celebrated” by the bank “undermines the […]
Featured Reports
In this original BTB Investigation, we unveil the tragic story of Kirk Murphy, a four-year-old boy who was treated for “cross-gender disturbance” in 1970 by a young grad student by the name of George Rekers. This story is a stark reminder that there are severe and damaging consequences when therapists try to ensure that boys will be boys.
When we first reported on three American anti-gay activists traveling to Kampala for a three-day conference, we had no idea that it would be the first report of a long string of events leading to a proposal to institute the death penalty for LGBT people. But that is exactly what happened. In this report, we review our collection of more than 500 posts to tell the story of one nation’s embrace of hatred toward gay people. This report will be updated continuously as events continue to unfold. Check here for the latest updates.
In 2005, the Southern Poverty Law Center wrote that “[Paul] Cameron’s ‘science’ echoes Nazi Germany.” What the SPLC didn”t know was Cameron doesn’t just “echo” Nazi Germany. He quoted extensively from one of the Final Solution’s architects. This puts his fascination with quarantines, mandatory tattoos, and extermination being a “plausible idea” in a whole new and deeply disturbing light.
On February 10, I attended an all-day “Love Won Out” ex-gay conference in Phoenix, put on by Focus on the Family and Exodus International. In this series of reports, I talk about what I learned there: the people who go to these conferences, the things that they hear, and what this all means for them, their families and for the rest of us.
Prologue: Why I Went To “Love Won Out”
Part 1: What’s Love Got To Do With It?
Part 2: Parents Struggle With “No Exceptions”
Part 3: A Whole New Dialect
Part 4: It Depends On How The Meaning of the Word "Change" Changes
Part 5: A Candid Explanation For "Change"
At last, the truth can now be told.
Using the same research methods employed by most anti-gay political pressure groups, we examine the statistics and the case studies that dispel many of the myths about heterosexuality. Download your copy today!
And don‘t miss our companion report, How To Write An Anti-Gay Tract In Fifteen Easy Steps.
Anti-gay activists often charge that gay men and women pose a threat to children. In this report, we explore the supposed connection between homosexuality and child sexual abuse, the conclusions reached by the most knowledgeable professionals in the field, and how anti-gay activists continue to ignore their findings. This has tremendous consequences, not just for gay men and women, but more importantly for the safety of all our children.
Anti-gay activists often cite the “Dutch Study” to claim that gay unions last only about 1½ years and that the these men have an average of eight additional partners per year outside of their steady relationship. In this report, we will take you step by step into the study to see whether the claims are true.
Tony Perkins’ Family Research Council submitted an Amicus Brief to the Maryland Court of Appeals as that court prepared to consider the issue of gay marriage. We examine just one small section of that brief to reveal the junk science and fraudulent claims of the Family “Research” Council.
The FBI’s annual Hate Crime Statistics aren’t as complete as they ought to be, and their report for 2004 was no exception. In fact, their most recent report has quite a few glaring holes. Holes big enough for Daniel Fetty to fall through.
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