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"Have You Considered Your Parents' Happiness?"

Conversion Therapy Against LGBT People in China

"Have You Considered Your Parents' Happiness?"

Conversion Therapy Against LGBT People in China

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ISBN: 978-1-6231-35478

"Have You Considered Your Parents' Happiness?"

Conversion Therapy Against LGBT People in China

Map .................................................................................................................................... I

Terminology ....................................................................................................................... II

Summary ........................................................................................................................... 1

Key Recommendations ....................................................................................................... 4 To the National Health and Family Planning Commission of the People's Republic of China .......4 To the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China ..................................................4 To the Chinese Psychological Association and Chinese Society of Psychiatry.............................4 To the World Psychiatry Association (WPA)................................................................................4

Methodology...................................................................................................................... 5

I. Background..................................................................................................................... 7 Conversion Therapy ..................................................................................................................7 Homosexuality and the Rights of LGBT People in China ............................................................ 8 Pressure Leading to Conversion Therapy ................................................................................. 12

II. Abuses in Conversion Therapy .......................................................................................15 Coercion and Lack of Informed Consent .................................................................................. 15 Arbitrary Deprivation of Liberty ............................................................................................... 19 Verbal Harassment and Intimidation.......................................................................................22 Forced Use of Medicine.......................................................................................................... 26 Electroshock.......................................................................................................................... 29

III. Lack of Regulations and Accountability ....................................................................... 34 Licensing and qualification.....................................................................................................34 Regulations and guidelines .................................................................................................... 35 Inadequate Accountability Mechanisms..................................................................................36 Court Verdicts Lacking Deterrent Effects..................................................................................38

IV. Legal Framework ......................................................................................................... 40 Decriminalization of Homosexuality, 1997.............................................................................. 40 Mental Health Law of the People's Republic of China (PRC), 2013 ........................................... 40

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