City’s social workers are unofficially recommending controversial method to vulnerable lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex teenagers in an effort to make them heterosexual, according to local charities.
The Hong Kong government is continuing to put the lives of young LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex) people at risk by failing to condemn or outlaw so-called “conversion therapy”, gay rights campaigners have claimed.
The therapy advocates that participants regularly pray, abstain from same-sex physical relationships and take cold showers in a bid to control their homosexual urges. Some of the more aggressive strategies include giving participants electric shocks.
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