Conversion Therapy

[pen_grunt]

Can we just call "conversion therapy" for LGBT youth what it is? Child abuse.

I'm so sick of the varnished vernacular on things like this. Actually, I'm mostly envious of the "other side" consistently getting to own the vernacular and being really good at it. So I want to name some of the things myself.

Let's just call it what it is, man.

So instead of saying, "There's a push to end conversion therapy" which might get tepid support, we say, "there's a push to end this form of child abuse."

Comments

[msmidge.livejournal.com]

We banned "conversion therapy" in California recently. I don't know why that hasn't been the case everywhere.

[cactus_rs]

Preach~~

[newlifeinstpaul.livejournal.com]

Since all abuse is--at is essence--an attempt to control, of COURSE it's abuse.
Hell, I'm still smarting from the 'Celibate Until Marriage Lest We Cast You into the Cold' clothespin the 'Dubs clamped on my teenage heterosexual You-Knows. I can't imagine how much worse it is to pretend you're NOT something that you absolutely are.