What does RT stand for?

The APA had criticized reparative therapy in the past, but a six-member task force added weight to this position by examining 83 studies on sexual orientation change conducted since 1960.

Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, Knox County Schools, and as many as 105 other school districts in Tennessee used Internet filtering software to unconstitutionally censor students' access to online information about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues, while at the same time allowing sites that denounce homosexuality or promote reparative therapy which purports to "cure" LGBT people.

The Irish Association of Social Workers spokesman Declan Coogan said they are rejecting sexual orientation conversion therapy - also known as reparative therapy.

Major mental health organisations maintain that sexual orientation is fixed and that so-called reparative therapy may actually be harmful.

Spitzer's conclusion clashes with that of major mental-health organizations, which say that sexual orientation is fixed and so-called reparative therapy may actually be harmful.

Then the heart can either receive therapies that improve its function, or the patient can undergo reparative therapy such as revascularization, or ultimately the heart can be assisted with a longer-lasting device such as an LVAD [left ventricular assist device], or transplant, Rose says.

Such efforts _ often called reparative therapy or conversion therapy _ are considered futile and harmful by many gay-rights activists.

Health pros say gay youth are A-OK Guess which highly respected professional health organizations in the United States think the whole reparative therapy movement is a dangerous lie?