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The Gender Gulag: Voices of the Asylum

  • 18-08-2010 11:52am
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    http://www.bilerico.com/2008/12/the_gender_gulag_voices_of_the_asylum.php

    this is a pretty harrowing read about the treatment of transgender or gender variant people under psychological care
    The treatments never became less painful, and there was nothing more painful than the shock, not even the rapes by the male patients, not even Mother and Father never returning.
    If I didn't emerge from my room with foundation, lip gloss, blush, mascara, eyeliner, eye shadow and feathered hair, I lost points. Without points, I couldn't go to the dining room. I couldn't go anywhere.


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  • #2
    Chuchoter
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    They made a Cold Case episode about this called Boy Crazy, it was so sad.


  • #3
    MultiUmm
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    Heartbreaking stuff. The treatment of those people was utterly disgusting, the really sick ones were the so called "doctors" who subjected people to such degrading and inhuman "treatment". :mad: Hiding behind pseudo-science to enforce societies ignorance and intolerance, that's sick.

    I hope that future generations will look back on these gender asylums and see them as the awful prisons that they were. It's still a sad age we live in when a lot of people wouldn't be phased in the slightest when reading that article. :(


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    L.Jenkins
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    MultiUmm wrote: »
    I hope that future generations will look back on these gender asylums and see them as the awful prisons that they were. It's still a sad age we live in when a lot of people wouldn't be phased in the slightest when reading that article. :(

    The article has actually infuriated me ever so slightly, because we all know that some people would consider that treatment of others acceptable still. It annoys me even more that some people are happy to sit back and let it happen.


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