Gay Indian Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil has called on Indian and the world to ban LGBT+ conversion therapy. The crown prince went through electroshock treatment to try to ‘cure’ his sexuality.
He felt compelled to endure the attempts because his parents threatened to jump into a well if he refused. Now he has told Forbes he wants to see laws that ban the ‘therapies’.
Experts around the world agree that they are futile and dangerous. Gohil said: ‘I was myself a victim of conversion therapy.
From my parents. When I came out, the first thing they tried to do was convert me. They wouldn’t accept me as a gay child. ‘They tried to ask the doctors to operate on me.