{"id":167965,"date":"2014-01-21T09:37:11","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T17:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=167965"},"modified":"2021-09-14T21:21:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T04:21:36","slug":"chinese-come-sexuality-change-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/01\/chinese-come-sexuality-change-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Come Out Against Sexuality Change Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFP reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/chinese-come-against-sexuality-change-therapy-034049352.html\"><strong>Chinese LGBT groups are standing up against\u00a0&#8220;sexuality adjustment&#8221; or\u00a0&#8220;conversion&#8221; therapies<\/strong><\/a> that use extreme measures in attempts to change the sexual orientation of homosexuals. From Yahoo News:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Zhang was treated three years ago, but five clinics contacted by AFP in the last month claimed to offer &#8220;sexuality adjustment&#8221; through various means, some of them including hypnosis, drugs and electric shock therapy.<\/p>\n<p>The Haiming Psychological Consulting Centre in Beijing touts the use of electricity on its website, saying: &#8220;After each shock, the person will quickly interrupt their thought, and separate from their fantasies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]\u00a0Now Chinese groups are following their lead. Beijing&#8217;s LGBT Center said in a statement last month that such methods &#8220;deeply damage homosexuals&#8217; physical and mental health, and worse infringe on their self-respect&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_9_1_1_1390298790669_1504\">Two activists connected with the Center, which is partly funded by the US and British embassies, posed with a sign reading &#8220;Homosexuality is not an illness&#8221; outside a clinic they said offered conversion therapy, and hope to persuade health authorities to revoke such facilities&#8217; licences. [<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/chinese-come-against-sexuality-change-therapy-034049352.html\"><strong>Source<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/gay-rights\/\">gay rights<\/a>\u00a0in China via CDT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFP reports that Chinese LGBT groups are standing up against\u00a0&#8220;sexuality adjustment&#8221; or\u00a0&#8220;conversion&#8221; therapies that use extreme measures in attempts to change the sexual orientation of homosexuals. 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