Leela Alcorn's Law Proposal: Gender Conversion Therapy Ban

[Ayla]

Leela Alcorn through her friends eyes.  Teen's tragic death gives rise to a proposed bill which gains massive support to ban gender conversion therapy

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/savannah-donaldson/leelah-alcorn_b_6407122.html 

Safe travels

Aisla

[Ayla]

Leela's Law petition is linked below if you wish to add your name to the petition

www.change.org/p/president-of-the-united-states-enact-leelah-s-law-to-ban-transgender-conversion-therapy

Aisla

[Laura J]

Thanks Aisla.

My parents thought it best when I was a teen feeling out of place to just not say anything to me themselves, instead they had a cop surprise me one morning, break my bedroom door down, and handcuff me and took me to the phych. Ward of the hospital, where I sat alone for 4 weeks..
That experience taught me one thing, how to lie to everyone.. "I'm fine" became my only reply to anyone asking me how I was, for years after that, even though I had occasional suicidal thoughts..

[EchelonHunt]

Signed them.

My only issue with the petition is that I wish that transgender conversion therapy be banned for adults as well as transgender youths.

Nobody, young or old, should be subjected to such barbaric practices. It should be banned completely - I firmly believe this.

[Ayla]

I had no idea that TCT was so common. When my parents laughed at me when I was 7, I realised that I had better focus on being a better male. Even now, at 57, my father still doesn't believe that I am trans. Thinks it must be a poor diagnosis as he only remembers me being completely normal. When I shared my lived experience with him, he would not, could not accept this truth.

Safe travels

Aisla

[Patty]

I signed in also, I hope someone out there is intelligent enough to LISTEN !

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Jan 3, 2015 19:27:18 GMT 8 @suzanne said:

Signed and put to Facebook

I myself had a delegation from church in my own house when I was a teen, trying to put me back on THEIR track.....and my parents acting like zombies, slaves....
Thirty years later I slapped that fact in their face when I was breaking up with them.....It was denied......

This brought to mind several years ago how extended family members would hire some guy named "Ted" something-or-other to abduct their child and deprogram them from the Moonies or some other cult or sect. The sad fact concerning parents is they tend to think that since they were instrumental in bringing their children into the world they somehow seem to think it entails ownership and control. My experience with my own kids is that once they were somewhere between 7 and 10 years old my influence began to diminish rapidly and I had to concede that they were becoming their own persons and would follow their own paths in life. How can a parent control others when they have absolutely no control over the outcome of their own lives? It flies in the face of reality and common sense!

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Signed. Still enraged.