YouTube has permanently deleted a deceased psychological therapist’s account for using “hate speech,” citing a 1994 debate in which he referred to a book with the word “sissy” in the title. “By silencing scientific debate they don’t like, YouTube is effectively shaping the public conversation about trauma and sexuality,” Joseph Nicolosi Jr., founder of the Reintegrative Therapy Association and son of the late Joseph Nicolosi Sr., told The Daily Signal in an emailed statement Wednesday. “They’re only letting the public (and people who are struggling with their sexuality) hear one side of the discussion, and in doing so, they’re misleading the very same people they claim they want to protect—individuals who struggle with trauma and their sexuality,” Nicolosi added. Nicolosi, whose father was born in 1947 and died in 2017, now runs his father’s YouTube channel. He says the channel has been active for 15 years, with videos receiving more than 1 million total views. Yet on Feb. 28, YouTube deleted one of the channel’s videos, a debate from 1994, for violating the platform’s “hate speech policy.” YouTube cited a time stamp in the video—which remains available on X—where Nicolosi’s father cites the 1987 book “The Sissy Boy Syndrome: The Development of Homosexuality,” written by psychologist Richard Green.

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