Many know that these tactics have long been used against people with nonheterosexual attractions and gender expansive identities, but the mainstream understanding of conversion therapy needs to be expanded in order to account for the ways it is also used in the attempt to orient those with “low” sexual desire toward “normal” sexuality and asexuals toward allosexuality. The 2018 National LGBT Survey “Research Report” had approximately 91,000 respondents. It found that asexuals were the most likely to have undergone or been offered conversion therapy, and racially marginalized people were more
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