This, unfortunately, is not the end of the story. There were similar diagnoses in the DSM some years after, such as ‘ego-dystonic homosexuality’, which described homosexual individuals who wanted to pursue heterosexuality (APA, 1980). This diagnosis was also widely criticised and removed from the nomenclature. Some therapists who try to change someone’s sexual orientation still practise, mostly within religious contexts (i.e. reparative therapists), despite it being condemned by many professional organisations and, in some cases, illegal (e.g. Fang, 2015; Ferguson, 2015). Some of this criticism prompted the development of the gender and sexual diversity affirmative therapy approaches that you read about in Chapter 10.