University of Birmingham urged to apologise for conversion therapy
The University of Birmingham, where a gay man says he was subjected to months of conversion therapy. (Getty) A gay man who endured months of electro-shock conversion therapy at the University of Birmingham psychology department is seeking an apology. Speaking out under the pseudonym “Chris”, he told the BBC that in the 1970s he went to his GP for advice after realising that he was gay. The GP told him that he would refer him to a University of Birmingham psychologist who would be able to “cure” him. The months of “treatment” he attended there were so traumatic, they would lead to...
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