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The fascinating (euphemism!) thing about this quote from the ex-CEO of @stonewalluk is that this - this right here - is precisely the kind of conversion rhetoric that was used by my doctor and father tried to use on me. They tried to tell me that my lack of attraction to women was just an error, and that I could fix it by masturbating while thinking of butch women. They gave me a book that told a ridiculous set of stories about how my attraction was just mixing up social signals and my attraction to men wasn’t real. It was a societal effect of wanting some kinship with other boys. It also said my attractions could and should be changed by being more open to thinking sexually about the opposite sex. What Nancy said here is precisely the sort of “conversion therapy” that still goes on. It’s not electro shock therapy and it’s not “therapy”. It’s social coercion by people teens trust. And here is someone gay teens were supposed to be able to trust, doing exactly what my father and doctor tried to do. Just like them, she put the real message inside something that sounded plausible on first read through, but was really nothing more than social coercion via shame. Stonewall say they want to take the “heat” out of “the debate”. But this alone is unforgivable. Even without the insertion of direct homophobia and the attempt to get gay people (and She’s targeting lesbians here) to pretend to be attracted to people they are not - the sentiment is appalling and coercive. Physical attraction is not something you can manifest via “progressive” attitudes. Obesity is not attractive to most people. Plenty of disabilities mean sexual attraction will not occur. That isn’t “societal prejudice”, it’s biological reality. As is the fact men are not women, and few people are genuinely attracted to people fraudulently presenting themselves as the opposite sex. This is the reality of “conversion therapy” in the modern west. Societal and organisational coercion that says there’s something wrong with you if you’re not physically attracted to someone if they are a member of a group they have deemed “marginalised”. It’s much wider than just sexual orientation, though the insertion of “trans people” is directly arguing lesbians “should” find men pretending to be women attractive and that gay men “should” find women with their breasts removed and on hormones attractive. That isn’t how attraction works. For decades gay people have been explaining this, even though most straight people understand it intuitively - only to be betrayed by an organisation pretending to support them. Stonewall are complicit in abuse against gay people- particularly lesbians - to appease and encourage those men (and women) who desire to make their own personal fantasy reality… or rather want to force others to play along with their fantasy because they can’t handle the truth. There is no chance of “reconciliation” with this organisation. What I’d like to see is their remaining assets stripped, their charity status revoked and any money divided up and given to people and organisations trying to fix the mess they helped to create.