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@bullivant@mastodon.ie Thank you for letting me get it off my chest. I wasn't trying to lecture or anything. Most of the descriptions of his later life usually call it something like "hormone treatments." But I think other people who might not know the history of this punishment could take it to mean something akin to what cis women choose to help with menopause. But it was extremely violent. He was punished from the inside out. In light of what's being done to adults and kids right now, it just makes me angry. Sometimes I feel a need to push back on things that are accidentally too euphemistic for the homophobia or transphobia they represent, you know? Kinda like how "conversion therapy" is a total coverup for what's actually done. The main point is, though, thank you for posting about him. It is always nice to see Turing remembered.