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What are parents going to do when conversion therapy inevitably fails? (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2025 OP
Throw Them Out Deep State Witch Oct 2025 #1
Same thing they were doing without it: abuse and other mistreatment. RockRaven Oct 2025 #2
People should protest outside of these places, peacefully of course. DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2025 #3
What they've always done. maxsolomon Oct 2025 #4
They'll keep the normies and disown the rest. MineralMan Oct 2025 #5
The higher suicide rate Johonny Oct 2025 #6
It's torture Johnny2X2X Oct 2025 #7
Practicing "conversion therapy" ought to be an automatic ten year prison sentence. hunter Oct 2025 #8
Conversion therapy unfortunately succeeds quite well in cowing children into keeping silent and exhibiting WhiskeyGrinder Oct 2025 #9
The corpse of a child is easy to control hunter Oct 2025 #10

Deep State Witch

(12,756 posts)
1. Throw Them Out
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 01:03 PM
Oct 2025

Kick them out of the house. Or make them so miserable that they run away. Disown them. I've seen it so many times with my gay friends.

Johonny

(26,606 posts)
6. The higher suicide rate
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 02:10 PM
Oct 2025

Pretty much explains that they doing awful things that drive LGBTQ toward unacceptable endings.

Johnny2X2X

(24,435 posts)
7. It's torture
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 02:40 PM
Oct 2025

I don't think the average person knows how extreme this can get. It has included electro shock therapy, sleep depravation, locked into freezing rooms etc. etc.

They want to torture young gay men and women.

hunter

(40,853 posts)
8. Practicing "conversion therapy" ought to be an automatic ten year prison sentence.
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 02:50 PM
Oct 2025

Twenty years if done for money.

Toss them into the same pit as the child molesters and rapists.

They worship a cruel and capricious god.

WhiskeyGrinder

(27,227 posts)
9. Conversion therapy unfortunately succeeds quite well in cowing children into keeping silent and exhibiting
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 02:52 PM
Oct 2025

specific behaviors so their parents will stop withholding affection. Which is what the parents want. Control.

hunter

(40,853 posts)
10. The corpse of a child is easy to control
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 04:41 PM
Oct 2025


In my teens and young adulthood many of my friends, too many now deceased, were queer as all fuck.

I will fight.

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