It’s day 3 of #TakeBackPride and today we are highlighting Alan Turing, the mathematician and computer scientist who is credited with inventing the first computer.
He played a crucial role in winning WWII by cracking the code that broke through Nazi Germany’s Enigma machine.
In 1952 he was prosecuted for “homosexual acts” and was chemically castrated as punishment. He died two years later in what was recorded as a suicide.
He received an official apology from the British government in 2009 and was pardoned by the Queen in 2013.
Using synthetic oestrogen to castrate gay men was once accepted to be a form of torture and a human rights abuse, but is now celebrated in the LGBT community as a way for trans women to be their true selves.
