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Gay Chinese man wins legal battle over forced conversion therapy
4 July 2017
From the section Asia
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There is growing awareness of LGBT issues in China
A gay man in central China has won an apology and compensation from a mental
hospital over forced conversion therapy, reports say.
The man, identified only by his surname Yu, had been admitted by his wife
and relatives to the hospital in the town of Zhumadian in Henan province in
2015.
He was forced to take medicine and have injections over 19 days.
But the court found that forcing him into a mental institution if he did not
pose a danger infringed his rights.
Last month it ordered the hospital - which had diagnosed Mr Yu with "sexual
preference disorder" - to publish a public apology in local newspapers and
pay the 38-year-old $735 (￡570), AP said citing a copy of the judgement.
However the court did not express an opinion on the practice of gay
conversion therapy.
Homosexuality was considered to be a mental disorder in China until 2001,
and attitudes remain conservative.
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In 2014 gay rights activist Peng Yanhui went into a private conversion
therapy clinic in Beijing to investigate the electroshock treatments it was
advertising.
He later sued the hospital over the suffering he went through and won $500.
Advertisements for the service were ordered to be removed from the internet.
"It's time for China to enact laws to prohibit forced gay conversion therapy
," he told AP after the Zhumadian ruling, which he said confirmed that
forced treatments were illegal.
There is growing awareness of LGBT issues in China. Big cities have lively
gay scenes, and last month Shanghai held a gay pride parade.
However, millions of gay people in China have married heterosexual partners
rather than come out as gay as a result of pressure from families, advocacy
groups say.
Last month a lesbian dating app was closed down by the authorities. Users
said the move came after the app expressed support for parents of LGBT
children who were handing out leaflets at a Shanghai marriage market, where
parents try to find partners for their children.
Last year a judge ruled that a gay couple could not register as married, the
first case of its kind in China.
Meanwhile, a social media campaign saw LGBT people pledge not to enter into
sham marriages with heterosexual people.
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How does China try to 'convert' gay people?
These are the suggested treatments for homosexuality listed in "Consulting
Psychology" published by Guangdong Higher Education Press, a recommended
text for mental health education:
1. Platonic love relationship: Find an "elegant and caring" member of the
opposite sex. Establish a relationship as friends initially. Then hope it
becomes something else.
2. Repulsion therapy: Induce nausea with forced vomiting or fear of
electrocution when thoughts of having a lover of the same sex emerge.
3. Shock therapy: Cause major shock to your lifestyle by moving to an
entirely new environment in order to sever connection with previous friends,
etc.
4. Sexual orientation transfer: When you are aroused, practise channelling
that feeling towards somebody of the opposite sex using pictures and audio
recordings. |
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