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"Chris Csabs started going through so-called “conversion practices” at 16 years
old. “I was extremely distressed about being gay and I went … to ask for help,”
he said. He was then moved interstate to participate in a conversion course,
exorcisms and counselling. But the damage inflicted had started well before
that.
“What makes a 16-year-old seek that out?” Csabs said. “It was because I’d been
doused in an ideology – that we now know underpins all conversion practices –
that told me from a very, very young age that LGBT people are broken and that
they are disordered and need to be fixed.”
After seven years, he was left “very, very broken”.
“I wasn’t functioning,” he said.
On Friday, a little over a year after the
New South Wales Conversion Practices
Ban Act was passed with bipartisan support, the ban comes into effect.
On the eve of the ban, the SOGICE (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Change Efforts) Survivors co-founder shared his story on a panel at an
Anti-Discrimination NSW event at Parliament House.
The feeling in the room was “almost electric”, Csabs told Guardian Australia.
“Everyone is very excited that this has finally happened,” he said. “This has
been a long road for a lot of us.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
