Parents spend a lot of money forcing their children to go to gay treatment, the fact that LGBTQ+ are still considered "sick" people

It is thought that as society develops, people's thoughts will also be expanded, but in fact the LGBTQ community is still suffering from the injuries brought by their own homes and loved ones. In many countries, especially Vietnam, the LGBTQ community is still faced with double standards, when being seen as "sick" people.

Recently, a female student who participated in the Leave with Pride campaign to stop the pathologicalization of homosexuals, bisexuals and transgenders ( LGBT) in Vietnam shared information: "My family always thinks that I am the wrong person. normal, has 'sickness' and needs to go to psychological treatment. Now my mother is trying to find a psychological treatment center and is willing to spend hundreds of millions to treat homosexuality'.

The campaign was launched by the iSEE Institute (Institute for Social, Economic and Environmental Research) in November 2021.

This female friend said that her family always thought "I am an abnormal child", "sick" and "need to go for psychological treatment". Not only that, this girlfriend was also judged by her parents as an unfilial, selfish child - thinking only of herself and not her family.

"Parents think that when relatives and society know that they are gay, they will have a discriminatory attitude, look down on them, and affect their parents and family line (my family is very educated, from generations of ancestors). all have high positions and education in society).

Currently, my mother is trying to find a psychological treatment center and hundreds of millions to treat homosexuality.

But things got even worse when my mother and my lover's mother teamed up to bury our love, my lover's mother tried to scorn with all kinds of the most horrible words in the world 'wrong. ', 'sick', 'childish',... (many more words but I can't tell them all) makes her always in a state of fatigue, sadness, and tears every time she mentions sexual orientation." This female friend shared.

Not only that, this girlfriend said: "Her parents also took all the devices, entered our social network nicks to read, then took out sarcasm, automatically logged into her Facebook. to block me".

The case of this girlfriend is just one of many girls in the campaign who have encountered discrimination from their own family, opposition to "unusual" relationships and finding ways to "cure"...

M. is one such case. This young man felt lonely in his own home when he confided that "his parents thought he was "psychologically ill" when they found out in his diary that he was gay".

Or another case where the father got angry when his son shared that he was gay. The climax when I drew a picture related to LGBT to hang in the room, my father took it out and cursed badly.

"Dad also said that he knows a lot of people who can cure 'gay diseases', as long as I still have 'symptoms', my father will take them away...'', this male friend said.

Despite progress in recognizing and protecting the health of LGBT people worldwide, therapies, and more broadly, the misconception that LGBT is a disease still exists in Vietnam.

LGBT people are often victims of "treatment" to help them recover from "illness", from forced changes in appearance, forced visits to doctors or shamans, forced medication, forced marriage to forced marriage. system for treatment.

According to iSEE statistics, 1 in 5 LGBTQ people are forced to see a doctor after revealing their identity as LGBT, and more than 60% of LGBT people face psychological pressure to conform to standards. heterosexual ink.

Discrimination and violence against LGBT people lead to irreparable physical and mental harm, contributing to an increase in the rate of suicidal people in the LGBT community in Vietnam.

Meanwhile, according to WHO and the World Association of Psychological and Psychiatric Professionals, LGBT is not a disease at all. Attempts to change the identity of a gay or transgender person have proven to fail to bring about lasting changes. On the contrary, it also has serious psychological and physical consequences for LGBT people.

Recently, in a response to the iSEE Institute, the World Health Organization affirmed that it will always stand on the most up-to-date medical views on not considering homosexuality, bisexuality, and transgenderism as a disease or psychological disorder. .

Attempts to change a person's sexual orientation are unfounded, medically unacceptable, and seriously affect the health and rights of those affected.

Hopefully in the near future, society's awareness should have a more correct view of the LGBT community, so that no one will have to suffer like those who have bravely lived their true self. .

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