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California Sexual Deviation Research Act is passed.

Date: 1950

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The act funds a statewide research project that includes castrating incarcerated men and giving them experimental hormone treatments to see if it changes their sexual behavior.

In the following decades, multiple states will follow suit in experimenting with hormonal treatments on incarcerated people, particularly after the introduction of the injectable contraceptive Depo-Provera in 1959.