I spent a day with Conversion Therapy Survivors to learn about their devastating experience and how their lives have changed since then.
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🗓️ 5 March 2021
⏱️ 19 minutes
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I spent a day with Conversion Therapy Survivors to learn about their devastating experience and how their lives have changed since then.
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▸ MATHEW - https://bornperfect.org & https://www.instagram.com/bornperfect
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▸ PETER - https://thetrevorproject.org & https://afsp.org
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▸ Creator, Director, Writer, etc. - Anthony Padilla
▸ Executive Producer - Alessandra Catanese
▸ Production Coordinator, Co-writer & Research - Elise Felber
▸ Director of Photography/Gaffer - Zach Zeidman
▸ Editor - Mike Criscimagna AKA Mork Crispy
▸ Assistant Editor - Patrick Horba
▸ Post PA / Assistant Editor - Ash Duckworth
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| 0:00.0 | Conversion therapy or reparative therapy is a practice that uses any attempt to alter a person's sexual orientation, gender identity, or expression. |
| 0:09.0 | In 1899, a German psychiatrist claimed that he had turned a gay man straight with just 45 hypnosis sessions and a couple trips to a brothel. |
| 0:16.0 | In a continued attempt to correct what was believed to be unwanted or sinful behavior, some people faced electroconvulsive therapy while others were subjected to even more extreme |
| 0:24.2 | techniques such as lobotomy of the brain. Today some 700,000 adults in the US alone |
| 0:28.7 | have received conversion therapy, half of which were subjected to these practices |
| 0:32.2 | from religious or spiritual advisors and even licensed healthcare professionals |
| 0:36.2 | before reaching the age of 18. A recent study found that LGBTQ who experience conversion therapy are nearly twice as likely to attempt suicide than those otherwise. |
| 0:44.3 | My name is Anthony Padilla, and today I'm going to be sitting down with conversion therapy survivors |
| 0:49.3 | to learn what it's really like to experience a practice that's been discredited and proven |
| 0:54.3 | ultimately harmful and outright cruel. Were these conversion therapy survivors able to come |
| 0:59.0 | out of this experience with a newfound appreciation for their most authentic self? Or |
| 1:03.6 | they live every day deeply tormented by the overwhelming shame they were forced to experience |
| 1:08.8 | at the hand of those they believed had their best interest at heart. |
| 1:13.6 | Hello Matthew. Hey Anthony. It's Aaron. Hey there. Peter. Hi Anthony, how are you? |
| 1:30.3 | Thank you so much for coming on here and teaching me about the world of surviving conversion therapy. |
| 1:34.3 | Absolutely a pleasure to be here. |
| 1:36.3 | What do you consider yourself, a conversion therapy survivor, someone who's been shamed for their authentic identity? |
| 1:41.3 | It's pretty hard to find the right words for it, and conversion therapy survivor is the |
| 1:46.7 | word that fits best. |
| 1:47.7 | A conversion therapy survivor, and I like to include that I'm an advocate to fight |
| 1:51.9 | conversion therapy now. |
| 1:53.0 | As a survivor of conversion therapy, and as somebody who didn't experience it in many of |
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