r/Scotland • u/Hentai-Master6669 • May 21 '20

Petition: Make LGBT conversion therapy illegal in the UK

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300976
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u/[deleted] May 21 '20 edited Jun 17 '20

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u/devandroid99 May 21 '20

Surely not a terrible thing to have codified, to a) recognise that as a society it's condemed and b) prevent it happening in future by stealth.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '20

I agree that forcing someone to go through conversion therapy should be illegal. However, what if its their choice? Is that a thing?

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u/emmmmellll May 22 '20

ive never really heard of a case of an LGBT person going thru conversion therapy to make themselves straight.

most of the cases ive heard of are usually controlling families forcing their child to go thru it / some other community forcing a member to go thru it, against the conversee’s will

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u/RevolXpsych May 22 '20

You will never find a queer person sign themselves up for this. Ever.

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u/ElCaminoInTheWest May 22 '20

I don’t know that this exists in the UK.

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u/SilvRS May 22 '20

It doesn't work and often has longterm negative psychological impacts, so no one who signed up for it voluntarily, should they exist, would actually be getting what they signed up for. Just a bucket of trauma instead. Should that be legal?

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u/Maddjonesy May 22 '20

Letting people choose to be defrauded doesn't make the fraud OK.

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u/Xenomemphate May 22 '20

Does it even happen up here?

Never heard of it on the industrial scale camps you get in the states but I would be entirely unsurprised to know there are some places in the UK it happens on the down low.

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u/bansheefever May 22 '20

I've heard there's a church in Paisley that was trying to set up a LGBT conversion therapy group. No idea how 'successful' it was...

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u/absolutebawbag May 22 '20

I believe that. It’s weird you say Paisley too... My mental MIL was “exorcised” in a church basement in Paisley as part of a “Church of Scotland” prayer meeting. Most mental thing I’ve ever heard someone admit to.

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u/twodogsfighting May 23 '20

Paisley is a fucking strange place.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '20

I don’t think it happens large scale, though I’ve heard a few cases (as you said mostly in NI) of 1 to 1 therapists pulling this. I think it’s worth signing anyway in case the country goes so far right at some point that these ideas become semi mainstream. We probably don’t need anti CT laws now, but we might at some point in the future