Yahoo – AFP,
19 Dec 2014
Beijing (AFP) - A Beijing court Friday ordered a psychological clinic to pay compensation to a homosexual man for administering electric shocks in an attempt to make him heterosexual, an unprecedented ruling on so-called conversion therapy.
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A Beijing orders a clinic to pay compensation to a homosexual man for administering
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Beijing (AFP) - A Beijing court Friday ordered a psychological clinic to pay compensation to a homosexual man for administering electric shocks in an attempt to make him heterosexual, an unprecedented ruling on so-called conversion therapy.
The
plaintiff, a gay man named Yang Teng, said he felt traumatised when he received
the shocks after being told to have sexual thoughts involving men.
Yang, who
also uses the nickname Xiao Zhen, said the Xinyu Piaoxiang clinic was ordered
to pay him 3,500 yuan ($562) and post a public apology on its website.
Yang said
the court also ruled it wasn't necessary to administer the shocks since
homosexuality did not require treatment.
"I'm
going to take this verdict and show it to my parents so they can see a Chinese
court said homosexuality isn't a mental illness," Yang told AFP.
The
verdict, the first of its kind in China, was not posted on the court's website
as of late Friday but photos of a document detailing the decision were shared
on social media.
Calls to
the clinic went unanswered Friday.
Those who
come out to friends and family in China often face significant pressure to
undergo sexuality "treatment" or marry a partner of the opposite sex.
Homosexuality
stopped being classified as a mental disorder in China in 2001 but widespread
intolerance toward gays and lesbians remains.
Activists
had hailed Yang's unprecedented case as a significant step forward.
Those that
campaign for gay rights in China still face harassment from authorities or
bureaucratic roadblocks.
But LGBT
groups in China are barred from registering as official non-governmental
organisations (NGO), and activists often take a low-profile approach to
promoting events lest the authorities decide to crack down.
Following
his victory, Yang said he plans to continue working on LGBT rights so others
like him can avoid similar treatment in the future.
Last May, a
19-year-old gay rights campaigner in the central province of Hunan was arrested
for organising a 100-person protest that police described as
"illegal".
Earlier
this year, an advocate in the same province made headlines when he announced he
was suing officials for denying his request to establish a gay-rights NGO.
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"The Akashic Circle" – Jul 17, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: Religion, The Humanization of God, Benevolent Design, DNA, Akashic Circle, (Old) Souls, Gaia, Indigenous People, Talents, Reincarnation, Genders, Gender Switches, In “between” Gender Change, Gender Confusion, Shift of Human Consciousness, Global Unity,..... etc.) - (Text version)
“… Gender Switching
Old souls, let me tell you something. If you are old enough, and many of you are, you have been everything. Do you hear me? All of you. You have been both genders. All of you have been what I will call between genders, and that means that all of you have had gender switches. Do you know what happens when it's time for you to switch a gender? We have discussed it before. You'll have dozens of lifetimes as the same gender. You're used to it. It's comfortable. You cannot conceive of being anything else, yet now it's time to change. It takes approximately three lifetimes for you to get used to it, and in those three lifetimes, you will have what I call "gender confusion."
It isn't confusion at all. It's absolutely normal, yet society often will see it as abnormal. I'm sitting here telling you you've all been through it. All of you. That's what old souls do. It's part of the system. …”
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