Britain’s proposal to ban “conversion therapy” is not what it seems
The government conflates sexual orientation and “gender identity”. It should think again
ONE PIONEER tried transplanting testicles from straight men into gay ones. Sigmund Freud thought hypnosis might work. Priests and imams have tried to “pray away the gay”; doctors administered electric shocks while patients were shown erotic images, in an attempt to recast pleasure as pain.
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