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Even if its not fixed or somehow we find a way to change it that isn’t abusive in other ways, it would still be wrong for parents to make that decision for others imo. People deserve more bodily autonomy than that. The problem with PTGA is that it presupposes that being gay is wrong and that’s the primary problem with it. Whether people can choose or not is irrelevant imo. There’s also the secondary problem that the methods used to try to change children are often abusive in other way, but that’s not inherent to it.
At least a small part is simply people having the knowledge to realize they are LGBT, but this is probably more relevant for the less common parts of the rainbow. Part of that is just the internet has grown. I found I gravitated towards queer spaces personally despite thinking I was allocishet at the time.
This is still dependent on what type of LGBT you are and what area you are in imo. Personally, I don’t think I’d have had any problem being out as gay in 2012 (pretty sure a fair number of people assumed I was and I thought that was cool), but I’m still plenty uncomfortable being out as trans atm, for example. Granted, part of it was I was in school in 2012 and now I work in the field of education (fortunately not a public school) in Texas.