Unreported World Shorts: China’s Gay Shock Therapy
Meet the Chinese LGBT activists bravely uncovering dangerous, unproven gay conversion treatments. Watch more Unreported World: channel4.com/programmes/unreported-world/ Channel 4 on Twitter: twitter.com/Channel4 | Facebook: facebook.com/Channel4 Chinese LGBT activist John bravely goes undercover to report on ‘conversion clinics’ who claim they can ‘cure’ gay people. Almost fifteen years after the Chinese Psychiatric Association stopped classifying homosexuality as a mental illness, unproven treatments, including electric shock therapy, are still being prescribed. John tells us that according to Confucius, ‘having children is the most important thing a person can do for their parents’ and, that it is often parents who submit their children for these unproven conversion treatments.
