Aversion Therapy is Back, And It’s Coming from the Trans Lobby

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Aversion Therapy is Back, And It’s Coming from the Trans Lobby

Prescribing bodily harm as any kind of ‘solution’ for someone’s failure to conform to sex roles or stereotypes is wrong.

BY: KAELEY TRILLER
MARCH 02, 2023

In the 1950s, effeminate men who demonstrated any hint of same-sex attraction were often referred for conversion therapy, where they underwent a series of pseudoscientific “treatments” — from nausea-inducing drugs to brain surgeries and ice baths — designed to rid them of their homosexual urges.

While I’m a theologically orthodox Protestant who believes in my faith’s historic teaching on marriage and sexual ethics, I hope we can all agree that prescribing bodily harm as any kind of “solution” for someone’s failure to conform to sex roles or stereotypes is wrong. Coercing people, under duress, to manufacture attraction that doesn’t exist is equally problematic.

But nearly a century later, this is all still happening, only this time it’s the transgender lobby that’s perpetuating it. Just look at this illustration I tweeted from a friend’s lesbian dating app a few days ago:



The backlash to my post was as swift as it was fierce: “You’re just jealous because these women are more beautiful than you’ll ever be.” “Eat a bullet, bigot!” It’s like 1950s-style aversion therapy all over again, only the conditioning isn’t limited to a clinical office; it’s completely consumed every corner of society. “You will be attracted to the people we have chosen for you, or else!”

The trans lobby is waging a full-on war against sexual orientation and “genital preferences,” which are now deemed “transphobic.”



Accusations of Bigotry
My friend’s experience isn’t an isolated incident. Last week, a heated panel discussion went viral in which a young woman unleashed on a man who said he would never date a “transwoman” because he’s not attracted to males. In the video, you can see the woman storm off the stage, assassinate the young man’s character, and refuse to further engage in the discussion, citing his “bigotry.”

The young man calmly tried to explain that he was not physically attracted to males, and she would hear nothing of it. “Shut the f-ck up, bigot,” was her impassioned response.


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Source:  https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/02/aversion-therapy-is-back-and-its-coming-from-the-trans-lobby/