[SamAdams76]

However, he was stripped of his job and chemically castrated with injections of female hormones after being convicted of gross indecency in 1952 for having sex with a man.

Really? They would inject homosexual men with female hormones? How was that supposed to help the problem?

[wideawake]

He was given a choice between hormone treatment or prison.

He was despondent in part because the hormones erased his sex drive - which was the purpose of the hormones.