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Decades-old 'conversion therapy' resurfaces in today's trans youth healthcare debate - ABC News (Australia)

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'Conversion therapy' survivor speaking out against trans health study

A decades-old psychiatric study is influencing current debates over transgender youth health care. But a new analysis led by a survivor says the findings were deeply harmful and dangerously misleading.

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One of the reasons I kept my transness buried so deep for so long, I feel like attending church as a kid might as well have been conversion therapy…

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