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Are children born gay or could kids be prevented from becoming homosexuals to spare them the difficulties associated with having a different sexual orientation than most other people?
This age-old question was raised by a Yangzhou-based psychiatrist, Bu Ru, who authored the article titled "How far parents should prevent teenagers from becoming homosexual." The article was published by Yangzhou Evening News on Thursday.
Bu wrote the article in response to queries from some youth who were asking for tips on how to admit to their parents their different sexual orientation. Parents were likewise apprehensive of how life would be difficult once these "confused" kids come out to society and declare they are gay or lesbians.
The next day, gay Chinese groups criticized the article for misinformation of sexual education. Ah Qiang, founder of Parents, Friends and Families of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) China questions the basis of Bu's theory that homosexuality could be prevented of changed. Other LGBT websites backed PFLAG, especially the portals that provide health guidance.
Ah points out that authoritative opinions made by experts like Bu could bring more pressure on young people who want to come out and their families. In turn, children declaring their sexual orientation in social media worries parents, according to a number of questions raised by parents based on the search for "homosexual children" which yielded a number of links.
While Bu believes that homosexuality must be prevented or cured, Ah points out that when authoritative figures like him speaks, it places more pressure and fear on families and their kids who lack knowledge of reality of sexuality.
Gay therapy clinics, which use electric shock to cure homosexuals, still thrive in China that a Beijing court ordered a psychological center to apologize and pay damage to a gay man who forcible underwent treatment in 2014.
To expose the work done by these gay conversion clinics, a number of news organizations, such as UK's Channel 4, went undercover to expose the things that happen at these clinics, reports Quartz.
