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[–] 56 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Conversion therapy is a form of torture. It's as stupid as expecting someone to change their blue eyes, to green eyes. You can't blame people for genetics, and you cannot just decide, as a blue eyed person, that you are now a green eyed person. It's not a decision, there is no therapy or medication or surgery to "fix" what is not broken. It's just abuse.

We have already been through this with Left Handers. Being left handed is normal. Gay people are normal. Religion does not exist to help people, it's purpose is to control people.

Thank you for attending my Ted Talk.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Growing up in the USSR they forced everyone to write with our right hand. You get beaten if you don't. Was really hard for my cousin because he's left handed. He just learned to fake it for the teachers.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    How did he fake being right-handed?

    I'm naturally right-handed and I've tried to do things left-handed before and it is insanely difficult, maddening really.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I agree that it's a form of torture, but someone can't ever have eyes be a different color because of the trauma. People do act like and belive they're straight because of the trauma forced upon them from conversation therapy.
    They also often gain hatred of those who are like they "used to be", and there's no real mirror for that in eye color.
    And just to be clear, I say none of this to minimise the horrors of conversation therapy.

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