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[–]ColoredTwiceIntersex female, medical malpractice victim, lesbian 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It is common propagandistic tactics - was always used in dictatorships and cults.

When USSR was "curing" me from my lesbianism, they were saying to parents that I will end up suiciding like many other lesbians (who mostly suicided BECAUSE of treatment or corrective rapes) if I receive no treatment. They were fearmongering them and saying same to me. I wss just naive teen who just wanted to be normal, so they did different therapies and in the end decided that I am acting too masculine, so must be a man - and put me on testosterone.

So it is very common way to control parents - scare them with suicide and remove kids from parents to propagandists (like we had pioneer camps, where were only few adult propagandists and we were not allowed to connect with parents for months).

And it all happened to me more than 30 years ago. Methods are never changing.