Ahmed Atique2025-09-012025-09-012024https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/5737The 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.en-USThesis