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Chinese hospitals still offering gay 'cure' therapy, film reveals
Source: The Guardian
Chinese hospitals still offering gay 'cure' therapy, film reveals
Emma Graham-Harrison and Shaunagh Connaire
Thursday 8 October 2015 05.00 BST
Chinese doctors are offering painful electroshock therapy and drug prescriptions they claim will “cure” homosexuality, an undercover documentary team has discovered, even though the treatments have no scientific basis and a Beijing court recently ruled against the practice.
Though the government stopped classifying homosexuality as a mental illness in 2001 and it was legalised in 1997, psychiatrists at hospitals in major cities are still charging hundreds of pounds for painful and bogus “conversion therapy” they claim can alter sexual orientation, Channel 4’s Unreported World found.
“Can you bear this kind of pain? How long can you bear it? If you can really bear with it then you can change,” one doctor told an undercover gay activist who filmed his consultation at a hospital in the port city of Tianjin.
That doctor recommends electroshock therapy, or doses of nausea-inducing drugs, every time her patient feels what she calls “urges”.
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Emma Graham-Harrison and Shaunagh Connaire
Thursday 8 October 2015 05.00 BST
Chinese doctors are offering painful electroshock therapy and drug prescriptions they claim will “cure” homosexuality, an undercover documentary team has discovered, even though the treatments have no scientific basis and a Beijing court recently ruled against the practice.
Though the government stopped classifying homosexuality as a mental illness in 2001 and it was legalised in 1997, psychiatrists at hospitals in major cities are still charging hundreds of pounds for painful and bogus “conversion therapy” they claim can alter sexual orientation, Channel 4’s Unreported World found.
“Can you bear this kind of pain? How long can you bear it? If you can really bear with it then you can change,” one doctor told an undercover gay activist who filmed his consultation at a hospital in the port city of Tianjin.
That doctor recommends electroshock therapy, or doses of nausea-inducing drugs, every time her patient feels what she calls “urges”.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/08/chinese-hospitals-still-offering-gay-cure-therapy-documentary-reveals
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