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A lesbian was forced to attend an Atos medical assessment to keep her benefits as a disabled person. She suffers from numerous mental health complaints – as so many within our community do – and was already anxious upon going to see the doctor

And that doctor decided it was appropriate to subject her to graphic, hateful homophobic rant

On another topic, the east end of London was plastered with many grossly homophobic posters. The posters declared the area to be a “gay free zone” with an extremely threatening religious verse “Arise and warn. Gay free zone. Verily Allah is severe in punishment.”

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So, Christian therapist, Lesley Pilkington, the woman responsible for this mess has been found guilty of malpractice by the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy

And this is important, oh yes yes it is.

Not just because she is an evil, dangerous woman who has the ability to hurt people when they are at their most vulnerable. Though we do have to stress just how dangerous she is and how much she can hurt people. People go to a therapist when they're hurting, people come to her when they're fragile, when they're hurt, when they're in pain, when they're afraid – and she exploits that. She adds to that, she furthers any damage, any hurting and perpetuates it and encourages it to last longer and go further. I don't exaggerate when I say this is a very evil woman doing an utterly evil thing.

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