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5:16am July 31, 2014
soilrockslove asked: Ugh, wasn't institutionalized for it - but got a whole lot of therapy that was basically pushing me to have the correct, feminine dress and grooming. >.< Only it was called "Social Skills" not "reparative therapy". And this happened around the year 2000. That is not long ago!

Yeppp that’s where they put it these days.  That’s where I saw it in the nineties.  I was lucky in that they didn’t make me do the makeup crap, even though I never wore any.  I looked feminine enough, I guess, because I wore long skirts, even if they commented in my records that I looked totally out of place and as if I was a grandmother rather than a kid. But I saw other kids being put through that stuff and it was always called some kind of social skills thing.

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