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DemocratSinceBirth

(101,410 posts)
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 01:01 PM Oct 7

What are parents going to do when conversion therapy inevitably fails?

Are they going to beat the gay out of their children? Where are we going with this?

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

Deep State Witch

(12,322 posts)
1. Throw Them Out
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 01:03 PM
Oct 7

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

(24,871 posts)
6. The higher suicide rate
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 02:10 PM
Oct 7

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

Johnny2X2X

(23,504 posts)
7. It's torture
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 02:40 PM
Oct 7

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

(40,073 posts)
8. Practicing "conversion therapy" ought to be an automatic ten year prison sentence.
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 02:50 PM
Oct 7

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

(25,818 posts)
9. Conversion therapy unfortunately succeeds quite well in cowing children into keeping silent and exhibiting
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 02:52 PM
Oct 7

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

hunter

(40,073 posts)
10. The corpse of a child is easy to control
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 04:41 PM
Oct 7


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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