Timothy S. Rodriguez

speaker

310 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 14 Jul

Timothy S. Rodriguez’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 1.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

Sounds Like A Cult · The Cult of Conversion Therapy · 14 Jul 2026 podcast

I mean, when it teaches you how to be so hyper critical of yourself, like that voice is always in the back of my mind.

And the minute I quit conversion therapy, it wasn't like I was magically free in my best gay self.

It took me years to peel away that shame and that

fear and that self-hatred and to finally be able to be comfortable in my own skin.

And so I think that's one thing that a lot of people don't understand is it's not just something that you go into, you do it for a minute and then you're out.

It's like, no, it messes up everything and how you perceive the world.

You know, we were always told our first instinct was the wrong instinct, that our gut feeling was wrong, that we couldn't trust ourselves.

So even just to learn to trust my own intuition took me a very long time.

And like, I didn't even know who I was because I was killing all of those parts of myself before I even allowed them to come to life.

And so I didn't come out till I was 28.

I was a virgin until I was 29.

It was a wild journey because I did not know who I was because I was just following a script that had been handed to me.

No.

So there was a therapist in Colorado who believed that it was her right of free speech and religious freedom to be able to perform conversion therapy in a therapeutic setting.

And so she got representation.

It got all the way up to the Supreme Court.

And the Supreme Court did agree with her that she should have the right to express her opinion in a therapeutic setting.

And so that happened.

Now, a good thing that kind of came out of that, though, is just in the last week or so, the Colorado House has passed a bill that essentially is creating some hedge of protection around that to say that a therapist is not allowed to force their own opinion on a minor, but they're allowed to express it, but they're not allowed to, in a therapeutic setting, say that this is the only way to go, this is the only way you can be, which is good.

And they've opened up the window for the statute of limitations.

Showing 241–260 of 310 · page 13 of 16