"Conversion therapy" sounds like too helpful of a term for certified abuse that accomplishes nothing.
I would call it "suicidal ideation training"
I would call it "suicidal ideation training"
Slowly realizing that I didn't fantasize about dying from the age of 12 because I was fucked up, I didn't do it because I was trans, I did it because every time I tried to explore my identity, I was violently forced back in line with other people's unrealistic expectations of me.
There's no way to hold those people to account. Many of them will never realize what they did to me and now I'm the one who has to deal with that burden.
Maybe we could just stop doing this to children.
Maybe we could just stop doing this to children.