BBC Meets with Survivors of Cruel "Shock" Treatment - NHS historical practice to be investigated
Imagine being given electroshock "treatment" in an NHS setting that you passed out and woke up three days later in hospital? Such was the horrific experience of one gay person who was given treatment designed to turn them in to a loyal heterosexual - all on the National Health Service. The Peter Tatchell Foundation has found that such medical cruelty, without any foundation in science, was meted out to lesbians, gay men and transgender people between 1967 and 1973, but its roots may go back...