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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nOpponents of transgender care that includes support for transition, including socialization, blockers, and hormones, often advocate “Conversion Therapy.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This book discusses several forms of conversion therapy, ranging from shaming to medically supervised torture practiced in the 1950s through the mid-1970s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
Mark has always known he was Marcia, even before his friends, the girls in the neighborhood, decided to dress him up.\u00a0 However, a transsexual living in Lincoln, Nebraska, in the 1960s had to be careful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As\u00a0Mark, he must face bullying and violence from his older brother Steve, who is a bit of a jock and loves teasing his little brother for being such a sissy.\u00a0 He must also deal with a father who keeps trying to force him to play sports, which doesn’t go well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Marcia, she must face the punishment of learning to do housework, cooking, cleaning, doing laundry, and even helping with his little sisters. A punishment she quickly learns to enjoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Other punishments are far more severe, including the belt, the cane, and the box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But nothing could have prepared Marcia for the “Cure” of “Conversion Therapy”, a brutal form of brainwashing that included shocks, torture, sleep deprivation, verbal harassment, and music with subliminal messages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The best of intentions in hopes of curing Marcia and making her accept being Mark have tragic consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While the story and some of the details are fictional, the story is based on actual experiences of people who experienced such treatments and related them to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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