China's Public Hospitals Are Still Electroshocking LGBT People

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Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/meghara/chi...PD6#.wg1JXzz5Y

China’s government is failing to crack down on conversion therapy, a dangerous and abusive practice that aims to forcibly turn gay people straight, Human Rights Watch said in a report released this week.

Seventeen people interviewed by Human Rights Watch said they had been subjected to electroshocks, been confined against their will, and had medication forced on them. Most of those people endured the treatment at hospitals overseen by China’s National Health and Family Planning Commission, the top health care regulator in the country.

“I was getting really close to the unguarded door, but before I could get to the door, the two security guys caught up and got me,” one former patient, named Luo Qing, told Human Rights Watch, according to the report. “The next thing I know is that I was on the floor.”

The findings are particularly troubling given the tentative progress LGBT activists have made in the country on the issue of conversion therapy in recent years. This summer a gay man won a lawsuit against a psychiatric hospital that forcibly admitted him and subjected him to conversion therapy, making international headlines. A city court ordered the hospital to print an apology in local newspapers and awarded him 5,000 RMB ($753).

In a 2014, Yanzi Peng, a gay rights activist, sued a conversion therapy clinic that had subjected him to electroshock treatment. In its decision siding with Peng, the court stated homosexuality should not be considered a mental disorder.

“The assertion that homosexuality is not a disease, to my mind it’s a major victory,” Peng told BuzzFeed News in an interview about his case last year.

But Peng also noted that he wasn’t sure if the clinic that treated him had even been shut down. Authorities in China have failed in monitoring medical facilities to ensure conversion therapy is not taking place and in issuing explicit prohibitions of the practice, Human Rights Watch found. The court rulings, the organization said, have not deterred the practice of conversion therapy.

Five of the former patients interviewed for the report were shown images or given descriptions of gay sexual acts and then shocked at the same time in an effort to try to get them to associate being gay with pain.

China decriminalized being gay in 2001, and conversion therapy is illegal in the country based on its mental health law, though there is no statute that bans discrimination against LGBT people.

But being gay is still a major taboo in the country, where many families remain deeply conservative. Young LGBT people can face intense pressure and scrutiny from their families, and many of those interviewed in the report said they were pushed into conversion therapy by their own parents.

Hmm, do you think this kind of treatment bears any fruit?

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Hmm, do you think this kind of treatment bears any fruit?

Ofc it doesn't lol It's barbaric and should never be considered treatment

[Lochton]

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Hmm, do you think this kind of treatment bears any fruit?

Nope? It has been proven before to not be a useful technique. Basically just another method to force people to not be what they are.

[kasuke06]

yeah... no. torture is for information extraction only. and even then it's not really effective.

[Dundebuns]

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Hmm, do you think this kind of treatment bears any fruit?

Quite the contrary. This kind of 'treatment' is incredibly dangerous and causes majot problems for those that are forced to undergo it, including and not limited to severe mental issues and suicide.

You can't convert someones homosexuality. Even those gay to straight camps constantly fail, and you see the ex-gay spokespeople literally caught with their pants around their ankles with other same sex people.

[Twix]

Seriously? Does CHINA of all countries in the world REALLY want MORE straight people who can fuck and reproduce? As if they don't already have a mass population problem.

They also have a lot of single men too.. let them suck each other off

[ThePhantombox]

Well I think we can all agree that this was...






Shocking.

[Mittens]

Well I think we can all agree that this was...






Shocking.

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OT: What do you expect? Its China. They sincerely not give a shit about the well being of its populace.

[Deleted]

Well the issue is not that it's ineffective, it's that it's stupid. You say a treatment is ineffective when it doesn't cure a disease. Homosexuality is not a disease.

[Dug]

Mike "ride the lightning" Pence sure seems to think so but you know that don't ya

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good. stay strong chinaaaa

[Airlick]

Seriously? Does CHINA of all countries in the world REALLY want MORE straight people who can fuck and reproduce? As if they don't already have a mass population problem.

You're right, China does have a massive population problem, it's the huge disproportion between males and females and aging society, both caused by the genius concept of one child policy. If having 1.3 billion people (on the territory roughly equal to the whole EU, even if half of it isn't very friendly climate) was the core problem, China wouldn't have basically eliminated poverty within 20 years. Earth can house a lot more than 7 billion people, it's all about better distribution of goods. I'm far from being a communist, or even socialist, quite the opposite, but supposedly half of the food produced by the West goes to waste. So no, China having a population of 1.3 billion isn't a problem. Now, the 1.2 billion population of India, which is one huge slum...

China could have 2 billion people and would still be perfectly fine. Might have been necessary to ration food, but people wouldn't starve, that's for sure. They just wouldn't have the obesity problem that's coming to light currently.

[Tico]

If this is true, it is really not a good thing.

[brimdog]

perceived external sensory stimulation
body initiates chemical reaction
correction via pain compliance

[Dalheim]

Well I think we can all agree that this was...






Shocking.

I know its a shit joke, but... I actually giggled a little.


OT: Yeah no, that won't help anyhting except get 'em to consider suicide afterwards.

[Saucexorzski]

its ok guys, they are moving to solar power so it will be clean electricity.

[Beardless Man]

How shocking...


But this will go under the rug just like anything else. Because it's not about the U.S and how despite being far more free, is still utter garbage.

[Strawberry]

They should try lobotomy, I heard it's more effective.

[Tennis]

Ofc it doesn't lol It's barbaric and should never be considered treatment

Do you have scientific proof? Why are the Chinese doing it then?

[Rabka Uhalla]

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Hmm, do you think this kind of treatment bears any fruit?

And what is the problem here, exactly? I'm not seeing it. Homosexuals are disgusting deviants who actively turn away from God's light, they should be shocked repeatedly until they turn back to the correct path and refrain from deviant behavior.

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