Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video playerIndia's first openly gay prince has told Sky News his parents tried to make him have brain surgery to change his sexuality.
Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil said he felt humiliated when his mother and father sought medical help to"convert" him after he told them he was gay.revealed doctors in India are still offering gay conversion therapy , despite the widely discredited practice being seen as"medical misconduct" by the nation's regulators.
Prince Gohil, the heir of the Maharaja of Rajpipla in Gujarat, has launched a legal battle at India's Supreme Court to try to get conversion therapy banned outright by law.Describing his own parents' attempt to"convert" him, the royal told Sky News:"It was an absolute case of discrimination and violation of human rights. Whether I'm a prince or not a prince, parents have no right to put their children through [this] kind of torture.
Prince Gohil said his parents visited doctors in the hope they could"perform a surgery on my brain, and even make me undergo electro shock therapy".