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My experiences may be different from formal conversion therapy but they still fucked me up. I'm still healing from what happened. The person promoting/enacting conversion practices doesn't have to be a therapist or other professional for their actions to be harmful.
Conversion practices are abuse. They're harmful. They're harmful even if a trans person is "consenting" to them. We live in a culture where anti-trans conversion practices are normalized, where being trans is seen as acceptable only after all other options are exhausted, if then.
We live in a culture where more people coming out as trans is seen as "a crisis", "an emergency", "an epidemic". We need to resist not only anti-trans conversion therapy but conversion practices more broadly and the culture that normalizes them, makes them seem "commonsense".
We shouldn't have to live in a culture that makes us feel like we shouldn't exist, where it's normal for people to want us to change what we are and think nothing of encouraging us to do so. Conversion therapy bans are just the start, it's the whole culture that needs changing.
And of course this also applies to conversion practices and homophobic culture targeting gay and queer people too. We need to stand in solidarity with each other against all conversion practices and oppressive cultures that can't accept us as we are.
So much transphobia manifests as conversion practices and other efforts to change who we are "for our own good". They'll call it "therapy", "feminism", even "love". It's abuse, it's psychological torture and oppression. We need to name it for what it is so we can uproot it.
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