Happy Wednesday, everybody. We got a great show plan for you. We're going to be talking about

mask anxiety later in the show. It's just a general part of life. I've been going to the gym

sometimes. Feels like actually one of the safer spaces. They have limited capacity. Everyone's

wearing gloves and masks. People are beautifully wiping down the machines before and after each use.

They have a lot of people working there wiping down the machines. It's been great. I've actually felt really good there. Feels definitely far safer

being there than at, I don't know, anywhere else where I'm watching people not wear masks,

lean in and touch each other, be around crowds in these enclosed spaces. So I don't know.

We're going to talk, though, about mask anxiety and ways

to cope with it because some people, it's really generating a lot of discomfort and anxiety.

But before we do that, let's talk about some news. Let's go on. Instagram, they are going to be

blocking any kind of promotion of conversion therapy. Now, that is, I didn't know that that was happening on

Instagram, but why would it not be, I suppose? So the social media giant is revealing plans

to block organizations that promote conversion therapy services on their platform. Now,

this is meaningful because the every single mental health organization has rejected the idea that

not only that conversion therapy doesn't work, but also that it's actually

psychologically traumatic and has ongoing negative outcomes, including suicide. And conversion

therapy is the misuse of therapy in a psychologically abusive way to turn someone who's

very healthfully gay into a straight individual. Now, that is again resting on the assumption that

it's not okay or healthy to be gay,

which it is. A lot of us are gay, bisexual, fluid. And this is just, you know, a right-wing religious

attempt to really whitewash that. It's a cultural genocide. But more importantly, it's

psychologically abusive and it's been rejected. And so it's illegal

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