Feminine Boy Project

sbpress.com – By Cynthya BrianKate

Though Stony Brook denies it, this campus was involved in a government-funded brainwashing project to keep children from “acting queer” for two decades. Some people involved still work on campus, and the Feminine Boy Project laid groundwork for current psychiatric abuses against transgender and gender-nonconforming people.

This project was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 1972 to 1986. The original stated goal on the grants was “treatment of pre-homosexuality” – the, idea that if children were kept from stepping outside gender stereotypes, they wouldn’t turn out gay…