General News 3: Gender conversion 'therapy' made me suicidal. I fear for other young Nigerians

[bob_turner]

A survivor warns against the harmful practices many are forced to undergo to try to change their sexuality or gender identityWhen I was nine, my parents took me to a traditional healer. He used a razor to make three incisions on the insteps of my feet, my wrists, my elbows, my forehead and on the back of my neck. As blood started to flow, the healer rubbed a concoction of herbs into the incisions and gave me a potion to drink. He took alligator pepper and rubbed it on various parts of...

Read more