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@lienrag @futurebird yeah, it's unfortunate that this "corrective" urge is wielded against - conspicuously - LGBT+ youth in many places.

It was illegal to be gay when and where I was born. Then I finished my schooling in a time and place where it was illegal to talk about LGBT issues and those of us who were out were ostracised at best.

I was largely immune to bullying (literally didn't notice, then later too scary to mess with), but I'm now raising a child who wants nothing to do with gender in a third country, where this kind of shit happens:

https://www.francetvinfo.fr/societe/education/harcelement-a-l-ecole/suicide-de-lucas-dans-les-colleges-la-difficile-prise-en-compte-du-harcelement-scolaire-envers-les-eleves-lgbt_5613326.html

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And it is the normalisation of reactionary tendencies that produces this, and religion can be a powerful avenue for that kind of hate.

But I've worked with LGBT charities in various places, mostly Europe, and sadly the US does not have a monopoly on this kind of bullying, although they have an especially serious case of culture war against what's been declared to be "degeneracy".