Never thought
In my wildest imagination
The truth
I am reading
Could be happening
Still.
In this day
And age.
As if
We haven't left
Medieval times
With the "curing"
Of the LGBT+ community.
In the mistaken belief
Physical torture
And psychological denial
Will alter.
What genetics
And chance
Have produced.
Wondering
How many children
And adults have taken
Their own lives.
From this quackery
Disguised
As "medical treatment".
Reviving
Old memories
Within the LGBT+ community
Of a time.
When transphobia
And homophobia
Were the norm
Within the medical community.
And not
The exception.
Like it is
Painfully
Slowly
Becoming.
Therisa © 2016
Author's note: The following links, are about conversion therapy, and how two different jurisdictions are dealing with it, on a practical term. One, actively taking steps, to make it illegal and stop its practice. And the other, to continue on, as if, nothing wrong has happened.
The second question, my mom asked me, after I came out, as a trans-lesbian, did I wanted to be cured. As if, being a trans-lesbian, was a horrible disease, like cancer that needed to be corrected, at cost, to me. While, adding, as a side comment, she couldn't help me, in the paying for such "cure". Never mind, she had just destroyed, any emotional base, I had with her.
