South African Forced Sexual Reassignment Surgery
Nation Involved: South Africa
Time Period: 1970s to 1980s
Remember Dr. Levin from the other South African experiment on gay people? Well, the dude is back. Along with the South African Defence Force, they forced lesbian and gay people in their military to undergo sex-change operations. While that might seem insane, they assumed that if they did this, it would “technically” not make them gay. After all, a female loving a male is fine to them. Apparently, even if that female was born a guy. Their idiocy on this whole thing is just astonishing. While transgender people undergo surgery today, it is by choice to make them feel like themselves. Doing it by force to people is horrific, and all just for loving the same sex?
These people were not given a choice, and most did not even want to be there. They were put through psychological coercion, chemical castration, and obviously the electroshock issue from before. From 1971 to 1989, roughly 900 forced sexual reassignment surgeries were done at military hospitals. Most of the people reassigned were young men. Males as young as 16 were forced to do this, as the South African Border war drafted 16 to 24-year-old males. Yet women also underwent sex-change operations by force too.