Conversion therapy: Prohibition

I am not convinced its a good idea to make laws about this at all. "Conversion therapy" could mean all kinds of things, and the medical opinion on it isn't set in stone, who knows what new things might be learned in the future or what unusual circumstances might apply to an individual? It seems over-reaching.

This makes me so angry, as someone went through 'gay conversion therapy'.

Gay conversion therapy involves various means, some reasonably benign, many overtly abusive, to convince a person that their demonstrable sexual and romantic orientation to members of their own sex isn't right or real, and that actually they are differently oriented.

The opposite of this is no intervention whatsoever except to love, and accept someone as oriented homosexually, and maybe show them some role models, which is why representation is so important.

What the Genderists are pressing for in terms of treating 'gender ID' is actually exactly the interventionist abuse that 'gay conversion therapy' involves, except it's perhaps more heinous, if you can credit that, because while gay conversion therapy can involve intense ritual and rape, Genderists think irreversible body modification and sterility is the answer to gender issues, and think that helping people be comfortable with their own bodies is conversion therapy.

So this legislation is attempting to say that conversion therapy is both wrong, and also right and appropriate. So it's damaging, dangerous rubbish. Which makes me even crosser because I would like to see actually conversion therapy disappear.