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 There's a very old reactionary tradition of labeling someone "insane" so as to take away their personal and bodily autonomy. 

It's been done to women and sexual minorities for a long time, used to justify incarceration, "corrective rape," lobotomization, forced sterilization, "conversion therapy," torture, and a whole bunch of other atrocities.

The fascists are still at it today.