For most members of the queer community, their interface with the medical community is distressful. Middle-class families invariably think being gay, lesbian or transgender is some kind of disease. The doctor is the answer. There is a cure. Their hapless family member, who says he is gay, is marched off to a doctor.
Instead of receiving sound advice, the doctor invariably offers ‘treatment’ that will convert their family member into being ‘straight’. Nobody sees the reality, that this is just not possible. The manner in which. . .