Conversion Practices - Cee's Story

Cee is a young person who is exploring their gender identity. While their friends and teachers are supportive of this their parents are not, and send them away to a “wellness retreat for troubled young girls” against their will.

This is an account of what conversion practices might look like for a person undergoing them in Scotland today. Conversion practices are acts which deliberately try to change or suppress a person’s sexual orientation and/or gender identity. You can find out more about them here, and our campaign to end them in Scotland here.

While some forms are illegal, some are not, or operate in grey areas of the law. Conversion practices happen across a range of settings: in institutions and in the home, in religious settings and secular spaces, and by so-called professionals as well as family members.

Content note: This story contains descriptions of conversion practices, including quasi-therapeutic practices, and parental abuse.

You can read Cee’s story here. The story was illustrated by GUNK Illustration.