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Hello, it's Manvine here. Today I'm handing the podcast over to the journalist Emily Sargent.

She'll be taking you with her on a special investigation. This is the first of a seven-part series

which will be running every Friday to uncover a fascinating and until now extremely secretive

practice. One that's still taking place all over Britain, conversion therapy. This is Thinking

Straight. So there's a kind of resignation, isn't there? I'm hearing. So you resign from

mum because she can't be available because of her needs and where she's at and then dad's not

available either. That's my therapist, Carol. We're on a Zoom call. She doesn't know

I'm recording her and that's not her real name because this is not your average therapy session.

So that's quite lonely, isn't it? So that's quite a lonely journey as a child.

Pretty standard stuff you might think. But the reason Carol's asking me about my lonely adolescence

is because I've come to her posing as someone struggling with being gay and I've been told she'll

be able to help. Did mum and dad hug you growing up with the affection there?

In 2018, the British government made a promise. We want to see an end to practices like

conversion therapy which is an abhorrent practice. But three years on, no such ban exists.

I'd walk back alone crying in the darkness. It was just a surge of desperation and devastation.

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