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Originally Posted by Dezzy
Nobody has ever wanted to be gay or anything other than the norm, most LGBT people have often thought of wanting to flick a switch and be 'normal' but that does not mean we should allow ourselves to be psychologically abused to the point that we don't want to live anymore.
Acceptance of who you are is the only way to be truly happy with yourself. There is no defending anyone who has ever been in favour of conversion therapy. It's a deadly con.
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OK maybe I have a different understanding of conversion therapy here, genuinely did not know it 'had to be' the totally dracononian torture house kind of thing?
Huffpost is about as left wing as they come, and that doesn't even state anything of the sort?
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012...n_1249697.html
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"Anybody can get help for anything from psychotherapists in this country except apparently gays who do not want to be gay".
"A man who wants to be a woman will receive not only the necessary operations but also a huge amount of psychological support and counselling," Widdecombe said.
"Yet the unhappy homosexual should, according to gay activists, be denied any chance whatever to investigate any possibility of seeing if he can be helped to become heterosexual."
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Is apparently what Ann had to say on the matter. And why it was decided she is for conversion therapy. Now if it actually is the 'lock people in rooms and force them to be raped by the opposite sex' kind of thing...then I would say huffpo should probably have made this clear.
If my understanding of conversion therapy is actually wrong, and its always the really horrible kind of 'we will utterly break you mentally' kind of thing, then obviously the conversion therapy part of my post is taken back.
OK. For some reason this did not show up when I searched before, but I found the actual full piece that has her talking about it
https://www.express.co.uk/comment/co...glad-to-be-gay