This makes a lot of sense and can be applied further. For example, forcing homosexuals to act against their disposition has caused severe mental health conditions, often leading to suicide. I know that one major cause of my depression was trying to suppress my sexuality. As they say: suppression leads to depression.

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"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." - Frederick Douglass 

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