CONVERSION/REPARATIVE THERAPIES
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Date
2024
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UMT.Lahore
Abstract
The ability to change one’s sexual orientation or gender identity through
medical or religious methods is an extremely questionable practice. It works to
recruit voluntary people (often involuntary) and subject them to extreme practices so
that they can conform with the norms of the Pakistani society. However, the question
lingers whether the result of such claims is as successful as it is in getting its
“patients” and what effect do these “therapies” have on them? I will argue in my
paper that conversion therapies have an effect on the political mindset of queer
community in Pakistan. The absence and minimal discourse on this topic in political
and surprisingly even medical academic discussions, in the context of Pakistan, does
leave a large gap to be explored in gender studies specifically focusing on human
security. Moreover, the undiscovered connection likely explains the status quo of
political activism in Pakistan which unknowingly to the contemporary mainstream
literature, tends to go against the normative social and political standings of the
nation.