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Lebanon's LGBTQ+ suffer impacts of discredited ‘conversion therapy’
From simple dialogue to electroshock therapy, hormonal treatments or surgery, these “professionals” are convinced that they can “cure” patients of their homosexuality. Once treated, the victims are scarred for life.
L'Orient Today / By Raphaël ABDELNOUR, 15 December 2022 20:15
BEIRUT — When he was 17, his parents made him go through electroconvulsive therapy, says Hassan*.“It all began when I was 13, when I naively asked them why I liked boys. My father took me straight to a forensic doctor to find out if someone had...
BEIRUT — When he was 17, his parents made him go through electroconvulsive therapy, says Hassan*.“It all began when I was 13, when I naively asked them why I liked boys. My father took me straight to a forensic doctor to find out if someone had...