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https://inews.co.uk/news/long-reads/trans-conversion-therapy-patient-speaks-out-psychiatrist-reported-1641330

“The overall implied intention, that was never said explicitly, was to make me understand that gender doesn’t exist, that it’s impossible to change sex or gender, that it’s very, very difficult to live as an adult, and be trans and that no one really believes you.”

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Afterward Lyle was “shocked, angry and scared,” he said. “If I hadn’t been as confrontational as I am, it would have been very different – much worse. I felt he would have very easily been able to manipulate someone who was more uncertain and more susceptible to believe him, because he is in a position of power. He has a very authoritative manner. It’s to the point of arrogance. Very patriarchal.”

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Nine months on, he’s beginning to identity why just one session disturbed him so much: because his sense of self seemed to be denied. “The hardest bit was not being believed,” he said,