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is there really a way in which the "pansexual" identifier could have led to conversion therapy...?

The thought process is lost on me, but I'd love to hear it.

What I can come up with is predicated on the assumption that bisexuality is "good, and natural." I'm not making a claim to the contrary here, just trying to follow his reasoning. It is the "other" that is bad, and unnatural, and that "other" implicates bisexuality, whilst the "other" is worthy of conversion therapy.

I think this may be a conflation of technical and social contexts, which I just replied to you about in a different thread.

It can't be that an ID as pan, as opposed to an ID as bi, caused the "conversion therapy." It has to be the phenomena driving those identifications. This has got to be the point; quite staunch on this. The letters "P A N" didn't upset people.