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'I was given electric shocks to knock the homosexuality out of my brain'
Norman Goodman underwent controversial electric shock therapy
More victims of controversial electric shock therapy used to try to change their sexuality have come forward to call on the government to investigate the historical "scandal".
They spoke out after the BBC revealed that more than 260 people had been subjected to the discredited treatment at NHS hospitals in the 1960s and 1970s.
The people, who are now in their 70s and 80s, said they had been left physically and emotionally traumatised by their experiences.
And while the government said it would be drafting legislation to ban "aversion therapy", ten months on, the people spoken to by the BBC said they were still yet to receive an apology for what they had endured.
The BBC's investigation uncovered evidence that LGBT+ patients were subjected to electric shock aversion therapy in NHS hospitals across England.
Patients were shown images associated with same-sex attraction while being given painful electric shocks in an attempt to change their sexuality.
Norman came forward following an earlier BBC investigation into electric shock therapy
Norman Goodman, 75, said that from childhood he felt more like a girl than a boy, and told his parents that he wanted to be female.
He was admitted to a psychiatric hospital in Manchester when he was 18, in the late 1960s.