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Turing was prosecuted in 1952 for homosexual acts. He accepted hormone treatment, a procedure commonly referred to as chemical castration, as an alternative to prison. Turing died on 7 June 1954, aged 41, from cyanide poisoning.
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10 hours ago · Rather than lose his Manchester job by serving jail time, Turing agreed to undergo chemical castration—taking estrogen injections to curb his libido, which ...
2 hours ago · In the United Kingdom, computer scientist Alan Turing, famous for his contributions to mathematics and computer science, pleaded guilty in 1952 to a charge ...
5 days ago · Not just Alan Turing, many people compare gender-affirming care with forcibly castrating men or FGM and say these two are the same thing.
7 days ago · Soon after being chemically castrated by order of a British court as punishment for being gay, Turing died by suicide, ingesting cyanide in 1954. Disparities.
2 days ago · Despite his national heroics, Turing was a controversial figure who died in 1954 aged just 41 after he was chemically castrated following a prosecution for ...
7 days ago · The story of Alan Turing, the pioneering computer scientist, is one of injustice overcome. Prosecuted and chemically castrated for being gay in the 1950s, ...
1 day ago · The British codebreaker and computer science progenitor Alan Turing was also charged with gross indecency in 1952. As punishment, he was chemically castrated ...
4 hours ago · It was so bad that people like Alan Turing, who's credited for the creation of the modern computer, was chemically castrated and punished for his homosexuality ...
1 day ago · We are highlighting English mathematician, cryptographer, logician, and a gay man before his time, Alan Turing. ... castrated and his security clearance from ...