My environment was always healthy and loving aside from the whole side of persuading me on a deep level that I needed to crush desire. But hey, maybe you can fix it by being harder-line and more isolating, like Aella's parents did. xitter.cf/Aella_Girl/status/1890…

There is a very simple way to keep your kids from becoming gay or trans. Raise them in a devout religious monoculture during the peak of that culture’s organization against gay marriage. Provide readings that establish being gay is one of the worst things someone could be. Attend church weekly. Read scriptures and pray nightly. Provide a stable, loving childhood home in which they can see evidence daily that the religious structure works for the people around them, who love them. Send them on religious missions. Structure their life around faith. That way, when they have feelings they don’t understand, they will have deeply and fundamentally internalized that nobody is born queer and can conclude that whatever they’re feeling is simply undeniable proof that they are monsters unworthy of love, and they can begin the healthy approach of cutting all feeling out of themselves until they realize decades later that actually they were always going to end up feeling something like this, no matter what you did, and you taught them to be the primary author of their own torment rather than providing a social role that allowed them to incorporate that monstrous nature of theirs into a healthy life That’s how my culture did it, anyway. And it worked! Only 40% of my same-aged church members in a quiet suburban Utah congregation turned out gay.