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The Aversion Project's main goal was to make cure gay people from being gay. They did this in many unhuman ways.
The red dot on the map shows where Ward 22 at 1 Millary Hospital in Voortekkerhoogte, South Africa. Which is where this whole exprement took place.
The Aversion Project took place from 1971 to 1989. Thats 18 years and a total of 900 people went threw the project.
The head person who lead this all was Dr. Aubrey Levin. He started this project because he thought that he could cure the gay out of people. In 1971 he gets at team together and starts stetting up in
Ward 22 in One Military Hostpial. The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust funded the project. Dr. Aubrey had many on his team. He had specilist in may different fields such as the female body, male body, and a LGBTQ+ adivacte. But the also had a team that he called the Simply Said and Done team. They just did what they were told not knowing what they were doing or how they were doing it.
He at first he only use people in the army who were gay, lesbian or used marijuana. But after a while he moved onto people to also were raging alcoholic, transgender people and sometimes just random boys. The age range for the people he took were from 16-24 years old.
- Druging them well they looked at same-sex naked pictures
- Electro shock them when they see a same-sex naked picture
- Cutting off men's penis
- Cutting off woman's breast
-Giving them a gender reassignment surgury (which failed)
-Shooting them up with hormones
- Stander B: Don't put others at risk
- Stander D: Respect others Differnces
- Stander 10: Make the infomation pubic
Stander B states that you can't put others at risk which they did. They was lots of side affcts of this project.
Psychological Inpact
Socal Inpact
Biological Inpact
- Being homosexual was illegal at the time
-The hormone treatment cause chemical catastrophic problems
- It cause people to question their sexuality and/or gender
-Also gave lots of them PTSD
Stander D states that you have to rescpet other differnces. Which they didn't do because they didn't respcet people in the LGBTQ commuity.
Stander 10 states that you have to share your finding with the pubic. Dr. Aubrey Levin never shared his finding with the pubic but in 2006 the government of South Afria posted a long pdf with all the informtion had which wasn't much.
- Pubic Health artice: http://www.publichealth.uct.ac.za/sites/default/files/image_tool/images/8/The%20Aversion%20Project.pdf
- Health and Human Rights artice: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Robert-Kaplan-5/publication/12043387_TheAversion_Project_-_Psychiatric_abuses_in_the_South_AfricanDefence_Force_during_the_Apartheid_Era/links/56a6d65008ae997e22ba4fb3/TheAversion-Project-Psychiatric-abuses-in-the-South-AfricanDefence-Force-during-the-Apartheid-Era.pdf
- South Afica's Pubic Document: https://web.archive.org/web/20121201172631/http://www.mrc.ac.za/healthsystems/aversion.pdf
- Dr. Aubrey Levin Timeline: https://globalnews.ca/news/541532/timeline-dr-aubrey-levin/
- Unethical Experiments: http://sink.weebly.com/uploads/2/8/1/7/2817572/unethicalexperiments.pdf