Trans woman recalls being strapped to chair and electrocuted in 'barbaric' attempt to make her cis

[RandySF]

A trans woman has opened up about her horrific experiences of conversion therapy in wake of the UK government’s reviled U-turn that will see LGB conversion therapy banned but trans conversion therapy remain legal.

Carolyn Mercer, 74, spoke to the Metro.co.uk about her experience of being strapped to a chair and given electric shocks to “cure her” at 17 years old.

“I went to an NHS hospital, I was taken into a dark room and strapped to a wooden chair. Electrodes were soaked in saltwater and stuck to my arm”, Mercer, from Lancashire, explained.

“The pain shot through my body, my arm shot up in the air. This was repeated. They tried to make me associate pain with who I saw myself as being, who I wanted to be.”

Speaking about the government’s decision to scrap a ban on trans conversion therapy, Mercer told the news site that there will be “blood” on Boris Johnson’s hands.



https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/24/trans-conversion-therapy-ban-carolyn-mercer/

[onecaliberal]

1. What the...

[Solly Mack]

2. Horrific

[I_UndergroundPanther]

3. In the 80's

In the mental hospital they did shitty things to transpeople,non binaries and asexuals. I was traumatized by that shit . I am even more defiant about my gender and asexuality after the shit they did..

They also tried to force me to wear female clothes. I lasted about 5 minutes until I went to my room and took that shit off.
So they threw me in solitary for two hours. So they wanted me to put on that shit again I walked myself into solitary.

I went once to this sex ed group my therapist pushed me into, than afterwards I didnt go to that group again. It was just awful,uncomfortable, scary,really freaked me out.

A patient discribed in detail his rape fantasy to the group. I wanted out of there.. someone else in the group asked him to discribe his victim he said tall and has big blue mowhawk. I was the only person in that entire hospital with a big blue mowhawk. I was horrified.

I wanted to scream, I felt nauseated.Half of me wanted to run away as fast as I could the other half wanted to beat him to death with my fists and stomp him with my boots until he was dead.

I got put in solitary for skipping that group too. Sometimes I would do something else during class time and show up when it was time to go back on the unit but they still put me in solitary for 2 hours.

I never talked to that therapist again except for small talk. This shit happened right after I told her I was not male or female.


I kept it all to myself for years. Than I told a different therapist I had thought about this for decades,I made my decision when I hit puberty. I dont want any of this are you sure about this? No games or bullshit.

I want a male chest reconstruction and you are going to sign the damn paper so I can get it done. He signed the paper.

When I got out of the office I was so happy!!!

Ignorance is no excuse when you are a therapist and psych staff. You cannot abuse the gender identity out of people.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

4. I've endured my share of emotional and mental abuse, along with uncooperate doctors

Thank goodness California has evolved and now sees such treatment as a right and a necessity and here in 2022, I'm getting nothing but cooperation from doctors and my insurance company. Because even as far back as the early 21st century? Forget it. "It's a choice," blah blah blah.

Now, if only something could be done to treat the bigots who like to make our lives miserable...

This is why all of this shit makes me so fucking angry. I've been there. I've endured it. I have the scars to prove it - mental and physical. Watching these fascist red states terrorizing and harming trans teens is horrifying and disgusting. Some of them are going to have the scars to go with this - or worse. Why? So a bunch of small-minded "tough guys" with Hitler fetishes can harm and kill and crush people who are different?

Strong people help others... Weak people hurt others. And I'm tired of seeing trans people hurt by scum like Abbott and DeSantis.