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Gonna suggest that attempts to separate conversion therapy targeted at trans people from anti-gay conversion therapy to defang its image in the public eye and promote that trans kids should be subjected to it has been going for a few years. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-vilain-transgender-parents-20150521-story.html
Eric Vilain and J. Michael Bailey in that article. More recently, Kenneth Zucker's made this argument. He clearly has an investment in this given that his practice was entirely conversion therapy. Weird that the LA Times article was only a couple of https://twitter.com/lisaquestions/status/1049960749538271232
months after CAMH closed the gender identity clinic and Zucker was dismissed for practicing conversion therapy. https://web.archive.org/web/20150320203815/http://metronews.ca/news/toronto/1315743/outcry-prompts-camh-to-review-its-controversial-treatment-of-trans-youth/
I can't help but think that this is part of the larger right wing pivot from attacking marriage equality to attacking trans rights as a wedge issue to break LGBTQ+ rights as a whole and reproductive rights as well. https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/10/23/christian-right-tips-fight-transgender-rights-separate-t-lgb
